11.   The economy has continued to improve, the crack trade has remained in decline and the population as a whole is getting older, the criminologists said.

12.   The crack trade is amazingly violent.

13.   The falloff in the crack trade and new policing tactics have reduced violent crime.

14.   The series was particularly sensitive because many blacks viewed it as confirmation of their long-standing suspicions that the government was responsible for the crack trade.

15.   Then came the crack trade.

16.   They still are, in the use of marijuana, packed in a Dutchmaster cigar, as the ghetto version of Prozac, or the continuing crack trade.

17.   Webster said he expected that recent news reports of CIA involvement in the crack cocaine trade would be a big topic at the convention.