Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like an acid rain, cocaine is pouring from the sky and corroding everything it touches. Although the battle to keep coke and other illegal drugs out of U.S. offices and factories may be a winnable one, shutting those substances out of the country is another story. The Reagan Administration's campaign to stop the smugglers, an effort backed by $1.2 billion last year compared with $708 million in 1981, seems to make the outlaws only craftier and more cold-blooded. Total imports of heroin and marijuana have declined somewhat, but cocaine now flows into the U.S. from Latin America...
...1/2-hour keynote speech last week, he had proved beyond a doubt that he is a determined foe of social corruption and economic inefficiency. He demanded radical improvements in the feeble Soviet agricultural program and lashed out against the misuse of power by Soviet officials. He also etched an acid appraisal of the 18-year rule of the late Leonid Brezhnev, who presided over the 26th Congress in 1981. Back then, laughter from delegates would have been unthinkable...
...happily trashy youth: prom dress, beehive hairdo and the Association crooning Cherish. But there is enough sweet irony in her voice to suggest that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves me! Life hates me! How anyone endures...
Some of them hang-out by the T doing acid drops and spins...
...last week in U.S. district court in New York City. Union Carbide asked the court to bar the cases from the U.S., where damage awards are typically higher than in India. A day after the Bhopal anniversary, a replay of the tragedy occurred when a cloud of gaseous sulfuric acid blanketed parts of Delhi, killing one man. The source: a corroded storage tank at an Indian-owned fertilizer plant...