Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cash seizures from the drug trade totaled more than $100 million last year in Los Angeles, topping the Miami toll for the first time. The city's Federal Reserve surplus--one way of measuring illegal money laundering--has jumped by more than 2,000 percent in five years, to $3.8 billion last year...
...Gitell points out, the most tragic consequence of the drug trade is the toll it takes on innocent victims like Tiffany Moore, killed in crossfire during a shootout between rival drug gangs. More generally, the violence which accompanies drug trafficking victimizes entire neighborhoods, particularly in the African-American community, as the constant danger of crime drives private businesses to the suburbs and further isolates minorities in joblessness and poverty...
...working on a fuzzy auto-focus camera. Matsushita has delivered a fuzzy automobile-traffic controller, and is about to unveil a fuzzy shower system that adjusts to changes in water temperature to prevent morning scaldings. And in the strongest endorsement of the technology to date, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry opened the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research in Yokohama and called for funding of some $34 million over the next six years...
...gambling palaces have revived the tourist trade and poured billions into the economy, but behind the glitzy facade is the Inlet, where the razzle- dazzle seems like a bad joke...
...knothole through which to view the peculiarities of Japanese baseball and the Americans who struggle to play it. But a larger point also slides home to the reader. If Americans and Japanese cannot see eye to eye on baseball, how can they understand each other on such issues as trade? The answer is evident from this book: they are not yet able...