Merchant incomes soared as commerce, both legitimate and via smuggling, became the lifeblood of New York.
Smuggling became so prevalent that many Bollywood movies of that era featured smugglers as central characters.
That is, as small, autonomous, local "mom and pop" smuggling became more expensive and difficult, bigger, more structured, and violent organizations took over.
But his corrupt and brutal rule, beginning in 1983, combined with his growing involvement in drug smuggling, became an embarrassment for Washington.
That type of smuggling became riskier and more expensive when the U.S. Coast Guard began halting and searching ships at greater distances from the coast and using fast motor launches of its own.
This type of smuggling became more risky and expensive when the U.S. Coast Guard began halting and searching ships at greater distances from the coast and using fast motor launches of its own.
Soon the middle classes were drinking it, huge taxes were whacked on it, and tea-smuggling became a serious problem.
The depressed state of the economy caused smuggling to become a mainstay of Gibraltar's trade; the mid-19th-century Irish traveller Martin Haverty described Gibraltar as "the grand smuggling depot for Spain".
Once a secretive and dangerous industry, smuggling has become open, even respectable.
Ivory smuggling has become an attractive and profitable enterprise for terrorist groups.
