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Example sentences for: cartels

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Unlike the traditional Medellin and Cali cartels, these traffickers maintain a low profile, do not commit terrorist acts, are tech-savvy, and reduce their organizational structure by merging licit and illicit business and by hiring outside smugglers on a per-job basis.
(This story is also the off-lead at the New York Times and the Washington Post .) The NYT goes with the South Korean president's call for the West--including the U.S.--to drop its sanctions against North Korea, and the WP leads with the news that Mexican drug cartels are, via a new far more potent strain of heroin, gaining a growing share of the U.S. drug trade.
Price-fixing cartels can work quite well in the short term.
And while there are plenty of old communist hacks still in charge in Russia, their opposition to Yeltsin, and the opposition of the big business cartels to his new cabinet, suggests whose side he's really on.
In an increasingly producer-led economy dominated by price-fixing cartels operating with the government’s blessing, consumers were left to foot the bill.