Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have government efforts failed so miserably to slow the drug trade? Easy answers such as bureaucratic ineptitude and "they're all corrupted by drug money" aren't convincing. Many other countries have succeeded in preventing drugs from becoming a national catastrophe. But our government, as the Washington case demonstrates, has failed because it is unwilling to attack the source of the nation's drug problems: the hopelessness and poverty of the inner city...
...sidekicks produce some of the show's lewdest gems. Flapper waitresses Trixie deTrade (Sherwin Parikh '90), a Joisey homegirl in a clingy jade satin mini and fuschia bikini top, and Sheila Lowitt, with sinister eye makeup, deftly trade bedtime barbs. When Trixie is scared by Sheila's desire to be a thespian, Sheila wonders, "How can you be so shallow?" "My boyfriend says I'm deep," Trixie retorts...
...face-saving Soviet diplomacy fails and the mujahedin squabble, the Kabul regime prepares for the final siege and Washington ponders its next move. | -- The Chemical Connection: why the South American coke trade is a two-way street. -- Steering a new course, former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley is returned to power...
...Japan's camera makers are ready to try again, this time with improved technology and prices aimed at a broader consumer market. At the Photo Marketing Association's big annual trade show in Dallas this week, Sony and Canon will introduce a pair of palm-size, lightweight still-video cameras that will sell for less than $1,000. Each model can take and store up to 50 shots on erasable, reusable 2-in. floppy disks. When plugged into a television set, the new systems display images that are about as sharp as conventional TV pictures. They are expected to arrive...
...massive table built especially for the occasion. Ranged around one side were negotiators for Poland's Communist government, led by the Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. On the other hunched the portly, moustached figure of Lech Walesa at the head of a 25-member team from the banned Solidarity trade union and other opposition groups...