Word: haven
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...best known as the indefatigable champion of the dissident, the downtrodden and the persecuted in his country. It was in this role that he incurred the deadly wrath of Brezhnev and the KGB. In the decade before Sakharov's banishment to Gorky, his two-room apartment was a haven for men and women who had fallen afoul of Soviet totalitarianism. Sitting at his enamel-top kitchen table, drinking apple-flavored tea, he dispensed precious counsel and gifts of money to an endless stream of visitors in trouble...
Signs are they haven't done so. Despite a $585 million high-tech makeover for the Postal Service over the past two years, the odds have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first-class mail delivery was at a five-year low in 1988, and complaints about late mail rose 35% last summer. For the workers, automation, heavier mail loads (especially during the Christmas rush) and outside competition have turned a once cushy job into a form of boot camp in eight-hour...
...hauling cash out of the U.S. has its drawbacks. The interest revenue lost while cash is in transit pains a drug dealer as much as it would a corporate financial officer. And since narcotraffickers see America as a safe and profitable haven for their assets, they often launder and invest their cash in the U.S. The first and trickiest step is depositing the hot cash in a U.S. financial institution. Reason: the IRS requires all banks to file Currency Transaction Reports for deposits of $10,000 or more. During the early 1980s, launderers got around this scrutiny by employing couriers...
Rakoff said she has already contacted LSAS to make sure there were no problems with the test scoring, and to see how Harvard's scores compared to others. McKinley said LSAS did score the tests correctly, but that "we haven't looked at the distribution of scores for individual institutions...
...used nonopiate drugs, usually cocaine. So scientists find themselves aiming their magic bullet at a moving target. "We're constantly having to treat new disease," said Marvin Snyder, director of NIDA's medications- development program. "In five years, the problem may not be cocaine, but some drug we haven't even heard...