Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent wears off? Says Scrooge creator Major Boddicker: "For sure, by spring it'll be gone...
...army major was flabbergasted at the offer, delivered by an emissary of Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha: in return for destroying confiscated documents and computer disks that provided a detailed blueprint of Gacha's cocaine empire, the officer, whose monthly salary is $300, would receive $1.2 million. Cash. If he refused, the drug Mafia would hunt him down and slaughter...
...many people would be strong enough to just say no? To reject immediate wealth and accept a relentless shadow of violent death? Yet the major did say no, and turned over the data to his superiors. His bravery is only one unsung ballad of honor in Colombia's crusade against its cocaine cowboys. It is also the exception, not the rule...
...while strolling the streets of Medellin. And nine days earlier, the narcos planted a bomb that ripped apart an Avianca jetliner en route from Bogota to Cali, claiming 107 lives. An anonymous caller said the plane had been destroyed because its passengers included five "snitches" -- people who, like the major, had defied the Mob to help the government...
...western Pacific and Palau and Truk in Micronesia. Citizens of Vanuatu, a volcanic archipelago of some 80 islands formerly known as the New Hebrides, have found that international finance beats coconut and taro farming. In Port Vila, the capital, it is not unusual for a $100 million transaction between major international banks to take place on any given...