### privacies | hiding:

Money laundering
* allows drug dealers to invest ill-gained funds in legal ways.
* are concealment
  - work
* can have devastating economic consequences.
* crime that deserves serious attention by securities firms.
* criminal offense when explicitly linked to narcotics activity.
* diminishes government tax revenue and therefore indirectly harms honest taxpayers.
* global phenomenon that affects all countries to varying degrees.
* growing, global problem that requires a global response.
* growth industry.
* has a pernicious effect on the economy.
* involves disguising assets so they can be used without detection.
* is also an essential component of government corruption
  - clearly easier in a booming economy, increasingly guided by market forces
  - of concern in Russia
  - another aspect of the narcotics phenomenon
  - bad for the economy
  - central to profit taking in the drug trade
  - considered the same as narcotrafficing
  - described generally and in relation to the overall international economy
  - intrinsic to the illicit drug trade
  - nothing but the conversion of illegitimate assets to legitimate ones
  - one means that finances terrorism
* is the criminal's way of trying to ensure that, in the end, crime pays
  - financial side of crime committed for profit
  - flip side of narcotics trafficking
  - lifeblood of narcotics trafficking and other financial crimes
  - used by organized crime groups that have great economic power
* means different things in different places.
* problem which transcends the narcotics industry.
* process vital to making crime worthwhile.
* puts the financial system at risk.
* silent crime.
* starts with the initial payment, say, for so much heroin.
* state and federal crime which often results in significant criminal penalties.
* takes advantage of new global opportunities to move money anonymously.
* term used by law enforcement to describe a common activity of organized crime.
* undermines the proper functioning of the banking system.
* way to obscure the origins of money obtained illegally.

### private activity:

Self harm
* Taking drugs involves risk and young people enjoy taking risks.
* private activity.

### private matters:

Civil case
* are private matters.
* involve actions to enforce, correct or protect private rights.
* involve conflicts between individuals or organizations
  - people or institutions such as businesses
  - disputes among individuals, corporations, or groups of individuals

Private property
* Private properties are properties.
* allows men both to use and conserve nature.
* basic tenet of capitalism, the only economic system that is free.
* fundamental right of our Constitution.
* gives the owner a stake in preserving environmental assets.
* human device.
* includes any property owned by another student, teacher, or other school personnel.
* is anathema to socialism
  - central to American culture
* is essential for personal freedom and for an efficient economy
  - to the exercise of individual rights
  - established in air and water
  - fundamental to the market process
  - maintained by public power
  - one of the most basic human rights
* is that owned by each spouse before marriage
  - which is created by labor
* is the basis for female subjugation
  - foundation of American life
  - institution that led to the rise of capitalism
  - intimate link between the individual person and the surrounding world
  - necessary means for the maintenance and success of self and family
  - real human right, and the foundation of all freedom
  - result of alienated labour

### private residences:

Amish home
* Most Amish homes have rooms that are separated by partitions.
* are private residences.