Word: virtually
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...Cali combine produces 70% of the coke reaching the U.S. today, according to the DEA, and 90% of the drug sold in Europe. The Cali godfathers have a virtual lock on the global wholesale market in the most lucrative commodity ever conceived by organized crime. The cartel is the best and brightest of the modern underworld: professional, intelligent, efficient, imaginative and nearly impenetrable. Says Robert Bonner, administrator of the DEA: "The Cali cartel is the most powerful criminal organization in the world. No drug organization rivals them today or perhaps any time in history...
Beijing sources say that Jiang Qing, 77, widow of Chairman Mao Zedong and ringleader of the infamous Gang of Four, committed suicide late last month. She is believed to have hanged herself at the suburban Beijing villa where she had been under virtual house arrest since her trial and conviction 10 years ago for helping to carry out the Cultural Revolution that bloodied China from 1966 to 1976. Jiang, who was known to have throat cancer, may have wished to cut short her suffering. Her death comes at an awkward time for the Beijing government, concerned just now with...
While Wylie insists the movie was not a life story, there is a shade of truth in the fact that at Harvard, Wylie in little-known compared to the virtual celebrities on the Crimson hockey team. This year, Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary awarded Wylie an honorary varsity letter for his contributions to Harvard athletics...
...what seems to be a virtual evacuation of the higher echelons of Harvard's administration, Kennedy School Dean Robert D. Putnam last week announced that he will step down after an unusually brief two-year tenure. Putnam says he is quitting to redirect his attention to teaching and research, and will likely teach an undergraduate course. In the meantime, Putnam will finish off two books which were on hold while he was dean...
...onslaught continued in the second stanza with Downing again scoring off of the initial draw on the way to a hat trick for the day. Berkery then tallied her third goal when Hackeling reciprocated for the earlier assist with a pretty feed, setting up an anticipating Berkery with a virtual open-net shot...