Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NARCOTICS TRAFFIC, chiefly in heroin, is less lucrative than gambling, but still profitable enough, bringing in more than $350 million in revenue and $25 million in profits. Because of the risks involved in peddling drugs directly, Cosa Nostra once again contracts the retail trade to its sharecroppers, saving for itself the less dangerous and infinitely more profitable role of importer and wholesaler. The sums involved are substantial. By the time opium from Turkey, the chief supplier for the U.S., is processed into heroin and shipped to New York, it is worth about $225,000 per kilogram. The price to society...
Enthusiastic boosters of the all-terrain vehicle whimsically suggest that it could even be the answer to the nation's jammed highways. When traffic slows to a stop, the driver need merely turn his wheel, move off the road and convert his grueling commuter ride into an exciting cross-country trip...
Brown said other problems are the busy Harvard Square traffic which prevents people from parking and the hippy attire of many of the customers, which frightens away many Harvard wives. However, Zavell said tat sales are not the major problem. Sales rose eight per cent this year, but expenses nullified this increase...
...personally unveiled plans for a Faculty housing project on the site, but opposition from neighborhood residents, many of them Harvard professors, killed the plans. The residents, led by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, said the housing would take up the last open space in the area, and cause street traffic and sidewalk congestion...
...think there's considerable concern [in the neighborhood] about traffic, parking, and so on, and some general concern about land coverage and the number of children and number of people that will be generated by the housing," Goyette said...