Word: vials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believed to be the only strain ever to leave Japan, is worth $2 million. The cattle produce tender Kobe beef, a delicacy that sells in Japan for as much as $180 per lb. Lively and his partner have sold $1 million worth of the semen at $250 a vial, in contrast to $25 for the typical U.S. variety. Ranchers from Canada to New Zealand foresee a bonanza in Wagyu beef because Japan has little room for raising cattle. They expect to boost meat shipments to Japan when the country lifts import quotas on beef next year...
...Greenpoint operation was the biggest crack-vial factory ever discovered. Only two months earlier, Customs agents had found several warehouses in New York City linked to Teng and his cronies that were stocked with some $28 million worth of paraphernalia, much of it hauled there from Seattle and Los Angeles. The stash was so vast -- 107 million vials, 1.9 million crack pipes, 178 million polyethylene bags for heroin -- that 25 Customs agents took three days just to count and load the items into eleven 50-ft.-long tractor trailers. "That was more paraphernalia than we'd ever even conceived...