Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bust capped off a five-month undercover investigation by Cambridge and MBTA police into sales of LSD in Harvard Square. Police said they purchased hundreds of "hit" of acid from Potter over a three-month period...
Well, shucks. It's been a long time since we all bought our jeans blue and faded them on the hoof. Now mainstream fiction runs to my-divorce novels and the acid-washed prose of minimalism. Dreary stuff, which is why the old-time, down-home Robbins would be welcome, a leftover '60s bystander reflects. But Skinny Legs and All falls awkwardly between storytelling and pamphleteering, and the old, bouncy irreverence sours into preachiness and windy bosh...
...wanted National Geographic to embrace the news and shed its reputation as a moss-backed wishbook where adolescent boys once made the acquaintance of bare-breasted women. A photographer and journalist himself, Garrett began publishing stories about the Exxon Valdez, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the effects of acid rain, and life in East Harlem. Despite his innovations, circulation remained flat during Garrett's tenure, after having almost doubled during the previous ten years...
...Acid rain, which has never been legally controlled, is causing serious damage in the Northeast and Canada. The Senate and House measures alike require a 50% reduction (about 10 million tons) from 1980 levels by the end of the year 2000 in factories' emissions of sulfur dioxide, which turns rain into sulfuric acid. Major reductions are also called for in nitrogen oxides (2 million tons by the year 2000 in the Administration and House versions, 4 million tons by 2005 in the Senate version...
...compromises on acid rain and auto emissions leave environmentalists and business still squabbling. -- Muslim Comeback: The fight against crime and drugs gives new clout to the Nation of Islam. -- Iran-Contra: Poindexter is the scandal's ultimate fall...