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...experimenters snort the drug or heat it and inhale the vapor, in the mistaken belief that they will not run the same risk of addiction as they would if they injected heroin. According to experts, frequent consumption in any form may lead to addiction. Still, says a $30,000-a-year clothes designer in New York: "You can't get hooked on it if you do it just once in a while. I used to spend $100 a week on coke; the high from heroin is even better for less money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A New and Deadly Menace | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...advertising budget of more than $600,000, the book has been ballyhooed in a barrage of full-page newspaper ads, some of which proclaim in big headlines: "Why You Will Probably Lose Everything in the Coming Depression." Casey is embarking on a lecture tour and starting a $ 145-a-year investment newsletter based on the book. On the way to the economic apocalypse, he will most likely make a bundle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Selling Gloom and Doom | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...unusual campaign, pitting two candidates trained in science against each other. Ray, 66, was a professor of zoology before joining the Atomic Energy Commission, which she headed in 1973-74; McDermott, 43, is a psychiatrist who continued treating patients to supplement his $9,600-a-year legislative salary until after he began his run for Governor in April. From the start, Ray was the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Defeat for Dixy Lee Ray | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Kraft is not expected to return to the campaign committee, but he will continue to collect his $56,000-a-year salary; he will need it. Jordan's ultimately successful defense cost at least $100,000. Four regional directors will split up Kraft's responsibilities, but they lack his close personal ties to almost everyone in the campaign, from the President to the field staff. Said a staffer: "We will miss Tim's day-to-day leadership. He was our problem solver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kraft Drops Out | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...made it almost prohibitively expensive for independent American business men to work abroad and hiked the tab for companies that pick up their employees' expenses. Firms usually pay the extra tax, but the proceeds then become taxable income for the employees. ITT estimates that a $40,000-a-year executive can wind up paying taxes on $95,000 of gross income. The extra tax bill: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Johnny Comes Marching Home | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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