Sometimes we'd see farmers on their way to Paro with green wheat on their backs, happy to rest in the sun for a while and smoke an illicit Silk Cut.
Mr. MacCarthy said that by working together with other financial services companies, the industry could "enhance our efforts to identify Web sites and pinpoint merchants that are trafficking in this illicit activity, cut them off from use of our network and provide assistance to law enforcement to put them in jail and shut them down for good".
The Iranians may say that if the flow of illicit technology is cut off they'll cut back their legitimate trade with Russia, too.
But proponents of gun control argue that many illegally held weapons were licensed guns that were stolen, so curbing licensed gun ownership should cut illicit gun use.
"If they really want to stop illicit trafficking and cut enforcement costs, as they say in their lawsuit, they too will move to end prohibition one day," Angell said of Oklahoma and Nebraska.
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Huston's hero, a young police officer in Los Angeles, is assigned to cut off illicit traffic in a rare drug, the antidote to the insomnia from which his own wife and infant daughter suffer.
In Mexico, the main selling point has been that drug-trafficking organizations would be crippled by the creation of a legal, regulated market for their product that would cut off their illicit financial pipeline.
UNITED NATIONS — Diplomats from the world's governments met throughout this week on agreements to cut the global illicit trade in small arms, but their work was curtailed in part by the near-boycott of the meetings by the United States.
Government clumsiness is partly to blame: in 1967 a military president banned new state lotteries to favour the federal game, and some governors decided that tolerating local bicheiros and taking a cut of their illicit profits was better than earning nothing at all from the business.
