Sentences with phrase «made drug dealing»

It is not drugs but rather drug laws that have made drug dealing profitable.

John approaches one of his men to make a drug deal.

After some contemplative stares, John dashed off to make a drug deal.

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Such a system makes it difficult for governments to know the identities of people exchanging money, so it has become a haven for money laundering, drug dealing, and corruption.

But while the deal would make Pfizer a lot larger, it also suggests that the drug giant may, in fact, be trying to make itself smaller.

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The idea is that the deal could help insulate the companies in case Amazon does make an ambitious move into selling drugs, as well as give the combined improved leverage in negotiations with drug companies.

On November 21st, a relatively small biotech company named Gilead Sciences (GILD) made headline news in the pharmaceutical investment community when it acquired a little - known hepatitis C drug developer named Pharmasset Inc. (VRUS), for $ 10.8 billion, in an all - cash deal.

Things got even better for Sprout a day after the F.D.A. approval, when Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, a drug company whose deal - making acumen had made it a stock - market darling, bought Sprout for an astonishing $ 1 billion — twice its value just two months earlier.

The drugs industry has seen a surge in deal - making this year as large players look for promising assets to improve their pipelines, but a Takeda - Shire transaction would be by far the biggest yet.

Now Amazon's moves to enter the health care industry have led two major US companies to make one of the biggest deals of the year, signaling major changes to come in the way Americans buy drugs and otherwise manage their health.

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

You city police proudly announce more frequent drug busts (when was the last time they made such a big deal over pot?

Getting guns off the street made Hollywood MUCH safer than it was these past few years than my previous time there in the 1980s, when guns and drug dealing were widespread.

But what makes the concept of executing drug dealers especially problematic — in addition to its inconsistencies with a pro-life ethic — is its radical approach to trying to deal with the opioid epidemic.

Conservatives make a big deal about abortion but do next to nothing about starvation (1000s die a day), car and road safety, drug and alcohol abuse, gun safety, drug safety, food safety, water safety, preventable disease, etc. all of which kill vast numbers of people.

After all, the JRW Little League is rooted in the midst of several challenging Chicago neighborhoods, where crime, poverty, underperforming schools, drug dealing and other societal ills can make everyday living nothing short of a treacherous human struggle.

You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way covers a lot of topics that teens need and want to read about: from sensitive areas like sexual abuse, pain, and hard times, to issues like understanding how to deal with peer pressure and making the right choice about drugs.

Which leaves some Rogers Park residents wondering why room can't be made for such a well - regarded institution, one that always made sure its sidewalks were swept, even as crime and drug dealing moved into the area.

And we already make crimes of behaviors that have broad individual and social costs; think reckless driving, negligent medical practices, and drug dealing.

Drug manufacturer Novartis AG said it plans to take over Alcon Inc. in a deal that broadens its business away from prescription drugs and makes it one of the biggest players in the global market for eye - care products.

It can help parents deal with common parenting issues like setting boundaries and making kids aware of consequences of their actions, as well as serious issues like drug and alcohol abuse and prevention of abuse.

While local governments, the state of New York, and the federal government continue to work to make the sale and possession of designer drugs like bath salts illegal, there's one politician who says this is the wrong way to deal with the crisis.

Reddy argued the bill is necessary to make the distinction between an addict who deals drugs to feed their habit and should be in treatment and a career dealer who doesn't care about getting clean.

Sources tell Investigative Post this deal has been months in the making and far surpasses the first Billion To Buffalo deal involving drug research, development and manufacturing at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

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She's an unremarkable DA who made her name on going after DUI while cutting deals with no prison time for drug dealers.

ESD chief operating officer Kevin Younis said the decision about Athenex was made because of its experience dealing with the federal Food and Drug Administration, and was not a sign of a blanket policy shift.

Using the second drug with bedaquiline made tuberculosis bacteria more vulnerable, pointing to a potential strategy for dealing with persistent infections.

«While a great deal of money has been invested in developing schizophrenia drugs, a similar investment hasn't been made to develop biomarkers that could improve the reliability and consistency of test results,» said Daniel Javitt, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at CUMC, Director of schizophrenia research at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and Co-Principal Investigator of the study.

So even before this drug makes it to the market, we already know that we have to be very careful in dealing with the evolution of resistance.

Since RNA - based gene silencing drugs have been successful so far, why bother with the greater challenge of targeting the DNA of the huntingtin gene itself, especially if it means dealing with virus particles and big, fragile drugs made of protein?

A study reported in the Archives of Family Medicine found that kids who regularly sit down with their families for an evening meal make wiser food choices, eat more vegetables, and get more nutrients than those who do not.2 For older children, the American Psychological Association found that family mealtime plays an important role in helping teens deal with the pressures of adolescence, such as motivation for school, peer relationships, depression, and making better choices with drugs and alcohol.

Drinking diluted ACV tastes just a little sour, but I'll tell you... it's much easier to drink to your health than deal with the long list of downright scary side effects you'll hear on the TV drug commercials — the ones that make you wonder if it's safer just to stay sick!

Many of these conditions are notoriously difficult to treat, and many practitioners have a tendency to treat such complaints mainly by recommending different kinds of drugs or dietary supplements for symptoms (like insomnia, depression, constipation, etc.), while generally making similar dietary recommendations for all patients and only rarely offer the most appropriate lifestyle advice to suit the patients they are dealing with at the time.

You have to deal with the glutathione because fluconazole, which is a wonder drug, it was made for and you know this but we're mostly talking for people listening, it was made for AIDS patients because they kept getting really bad fungal infections, but now it's like the one pill you can take for yeast infection and it just decimates yeast in the body.

You make one more drug deal with that idiot fucking cop magnet of a cousin of yours, and I'll forget your grandmother was so nice to me.

One just wants to live a normal life, the other does whatever he can to make it, including gang banging, drug dealing, and armed robberies.

Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission — risking everything, including his family and his own life.

Fortunately, the movie doesn't feel like an overextended sketch though it does have its narrative detours that dawdle (a celebrity drug deal is padded out with far too few jokes), running jokes that hold on for a beat too long and then some (the George Michael fascination culminates in a drug sequence that does absolutely nothing), and there are missed opportunities that seem obvious (Key using his new gangster friends to intimidate a man making advances on his wife).

Returning to the criminal world where he made his name, he's involved in a drug deal gone bad.

Ridley Scott, the director of Blade Runner and Gladiator, Cormac McCarthy, the author of Blood Meridian, and Michael Fassbender, Hollywood's man of the moment, have pooled their talents to make a caper movie about a million - dollar drug deal gone wrong.

Kudos has to go to Gary Oldman who makes the biggest transformation, Brad Pitt and Dennis Hopper showing their own respective brands of effortless style, and Patricia Arquette creating a woman that you would kill, steal and drug deal for.

When he's «forced» to deal drugs in unexpected circumstances, he makes sure to break the fourth wall and tell the audience not to judge because of his color.

The eponymous counselor (played by Michael Fassbender, but deliberately unnamed for a touch of, honestly, I don't know) for those with patience and an unflagging sense of hope that said patience will be rewarded, is eventually revealed to be a lawyer who has gotten into money trouble and is now taking part in a major drug deal in order to extricate himself and, perhaps, make a tidy bundle on the side.

References to illegal drug dealing and smuggling are made.

Ray has had his face bashed up in a drug deal gone wrong; he looks like a Francis Bacon portrait made flesh.

Instead, his drugs and money are snatched and his supplier, a big - deal jerk played by Ed Helms, offers to wipe the slate clean if he'll make a quick run to Mexico to pick up some weed.

Here's where the movie could have lost all believability as John makes a deal with the federal attorney Joanne Keeghan (Susan Sarandon), who agrees to cut down Jason's sentence if John can bring her a legitimate drug dealer.

Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. Attorney (Susan Sarandon) to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission — risking everything, including his family and his own life.