Word: task
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each day. The goal: to identify and perhaps confiscate at least some of the more than $100 billion in drug funds laundered through the international banking system each year. Finance experts have long called for increased surveillance of so-called wire transfers. The task will be daunting because $1 trillion or more moves through banking wires each day, and the Government lacks the resources to monitor...
...carved ivory was largely unregulated, and so tusks lacking documentation were diverted through the Middle East and elsewhere, where they were lightly carved so they could enter Hong Kong as legal ivory. Last June, as nations moved to ban ivory imports, Hong Kong set up a special customs task force aimed at smugglers, as well as a 24-hour hot line. It has closed its borders to ivory imports for the time being...
...provide entertainment. They are asked to be socially responsible as well. Because they come into the home uninvited, network programs are supposed to uphold proper moral values and teach life lessons: drugs are bad, race discrimination is wrong, women should get breast exams early and often. Sometimes the second task tends to overwhelm the first: that is, a show is so busy doing good that no one bothers to notice whether it is good. The new season's prime example is ABC's Life Goes...
...group is more zealous than the Temple Institute, whose spiritual leader, 50-year-old Rabbi Israel Ariel, was one of the first Israeli paratroopers to reach the Mount in 1967. "Our task," states the institute's American-born director, Zev Golan, "is to advance the cause of the Temple and to prepare for its establishment, not just talk about...
...couple squad practices every Thursday night from 9 to 11 p.m. at the Quad, and usually holds an additional practice at 10 a.m. on game day. During these two sessions, the squad works out the stunts and pyramids it plans to perform at the game. This is no easy task...