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Unknown to Chip Carter, now 30, law enforcement officials were getting ready to stage a major drug bust in the Panama City vicinity that very night. Because of its isolated beaches, tree-lined inlets and intricate inland canal system, the resort area had become an important entry point for marijuana smuggled from Colombia...
...white van pulled up to the back entrance of Harvey's Resort Hotel-Casino in Stateline, Nev., about 5:30 a.m. one day last week. Out climbed two men in white coveralls who unloaded a gray, steel crate, with a small box on top, shrouded in plastic that was stamped IBM. The men carefully made their delivery to the casino's second-floor executive offices and departed...
...violent confrontation. Gierek well knows the danger of using force. In 1970, his predecessor used force against the rioting Gdansk workers. Dozens died in the clashes, and Gomulka was finally forced out. Confronted with similar food-price riots in 1976, Gierek wisely backed down on prices rather than resort to massive force. So far, there is no indication that he intends to reverse that policy...
...irony is that in the midst of shortages, almost everything is available-at the right price. Most Poles resort to an extensive black-market system where meat, food, clothes, jewelry, cars and appliances can all be had, provided the medium of exchange is not the zloty but the dollar, the deutsche mark or outright barter. Waiting time to buy a Polish-built Fiat can be shortened from four years to a few weeks if payment is made in dollars rather than zloty. The plumber, whose services are normally difficult to obtain, comes immediately if the bill is paid with...
...converged to change the way we make goods. We are moving rapidly beyond traditional mass production to a sophisticated mix of mass and demassified products ... made with wholistic, continuous-flow processes." Krantz goes for grand howlers: "Thank heaven they'd all be in their staterooms, intently adjusting their resort dinner clothes, caparisoned for the delectation of each other...