The Middle East Crack Up

Steven Levitt analyzes crack economics

Sami wanted to buy crack.

Then crack the soil open .

Then crack the soil open .

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

And the heaven will crack so on that Day it will be frail .

There's a crack in the cup so the contents are leaking.

Before I crack into my rant, which I'm sure you're waiting for ...

One can only hope that this crack of freedom will widen in time.

Drug abuse trends in the region indicate that cocaine, coca paste and crack cocaine abuse is increasing.

Today things are ugly, there are lots of prostitutes smoking crack and this gives us a bad rap.

Working jointly, we are trying to crack down on the problem by arranging seminars, exhibitions and sports events.

Ever since 2001, Greece has intensified its efforts to crack down on trafficking and trade in human beings.

In Syria, it seems inevitable that protest may soon crack the regime s brittle political immobility.

Let them eat crack reads this graffiti in New York. Image by Flickr user Omiso.

What , have they never observed the heaven above them , ( and seen ) how We built and adorned it , leaving no crack ?

What , have they never observed the heaven above them , ( and seen ) how We built and adorned it , leaving no crack ?

Finally, this perspective assumes that democracies will be willing or able to control radicalism and crack down on extremists.

Without further discussion, Deng mobilized 500,000 troops to enter Beijing to crack down on the unarmed students and civilians.

Logically, Fatah should now embrace moderation, crack down on cross border terrorism, and seek some kind of peace with Israel.

The Day when the earth will crack for them at once . That is an easy gathering for Us .

And it turned out, there was this audience that didn't know it wanted crack cocaine, but, when it came, it really did.

He was arrested again three weeks later, when police searched his home and found heroin, ten ounces of crack cocaine and a starting pistol.

In 2004, China had worked with the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and other neighbouring countries to crack several large scale transnational drug trafficking cases.

Being familiar with the latest typologies is therefore a prerequisite for investigative and other relevant authorities to crack down effectively on money laundering.

Recently, scientists have discovered supersonic fracture, the phenomenon of crack motion faster than the speed of sound in a material.

We are actually really very excited about what else non invasive techniques like this will be able to crack in the future.

It was a man called Brian who runs a crack team of Scientologists who are determined to destroy psychiatry wherever it lies.

It was never explained why the 'illegal' port of Rifaat had been tolerated for four years (1995 1999), before the crack down.

Nuthatch refers to the propensity of some species to wedge a large insect or seed in a crack and hack at it with their strong bills.

Because you could smoke crack cocaine you can't smoke powdered cocaine and smoking is a much more efficient mechanism at delivering a high than is snorting it.

Issues such as Burma, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, climate change, and nuclear proliferation all appear to be falling, because they are being insufficiently addressed, into this crack.

Whenever manipulation efforts fail, cyber attacks offer yet another powerful tool to crack down on dissent without triggering public accusations of formal censorship.

This will inevitably make fixed exchange rate links crack under pressure as the same monetary policy cannot possibly be appropriate for both regions.

Another crack appeared with the 1983 Hezbollah attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut, which triggered an abrupt US withdrawal from Lebanon.

The low elevation, corridors, and unstable building material allowed groundwater from the Nile to seep into the walls, causing the entire pyramid to sink into the ground and crack.

The ice began to crack on November 17, when Representative John Murtha, a hawkish Democratic congressman and marine veteran, suggested pulling troops out of Iraq in six months.

On December 13, 1981, Jaruzelski began a crack down on Solidarity, declaring martial law and creating a Military Council of National Salvation ( Wojskowa Rada Ocalenia Narodowego , or WRON ).

But Israel will be required to engage in peace talks only if the Palestinians crack down on terrorism that is, risk another Fatah Hamas civil war and eliminate corruption.

And to do that, you have to actually go back to a time before crack cocaine, in the early '80s, and look at it from the perspective of a gang leader.

See, we spent a lot of energy, in many domains technological, scientific, hard work, creativity, human ingenuity to crack important social problems with technology solutions.

The larger sluices may be concealed under the roots of trees (such as crack willows), which have grown up from seedlings established in the brickwork.

Now to give you a sense of just how bad the inner city was during crack and I'm not really focusing on the negatives, but really, there's another story to tell you there if you look at the death rates just of random, young black males growing up in the inner city in the United States the death rates during crack were about one percent.

In the UK a study showed that up to 95 of women in prostitution are problematic drug users, including around 78 heroin users and rising numbers of crack cocaine addicts.