Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faced up to 14-hour days that began with breakfast meetings and ended with after-dinner speeches. With them were TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, led by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Board Chairman Ralph Davidson and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave. The topics ranged from acid rain to Star Wars, but it was the U.S. budget deficit and its effect on interest rates and the dollar that dominated the discussions. Most Administration officials and Congressmen agreed with Senator Dole, who described his effort to forge a bipartisan coalition in favor of budget cuts as "the only...
...more borders, bringing previously untainted countries into some phase of the business. Sixteen months ago, customs seized 667 kilos of cocaine, at that time the largest haul in history, at an airport near Caracas, Venezuela. In Paraguay last September, officials intercepted 49,000 gal. of ether, acetone and hydrochloric acid, enough to process eight tons of cocaine; DEA officials speculate that influential Paraguayans might be involved in drug trafficking. Cocaine arrests in Trinidad soared to 150 in 1983 from three in 1978. In the Bahamas, three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling resigned from their...
...afflicting their North American neighbor: coca abuse has begun to spread across South America. The greatest culprit is a brown, pennies-cheap cigarette made of an addictive low-grade coca paste. Often known as brutos, the cigarettes contain impurities that have not been processed out, including caustic soda, sulfuric acid and kerosene. The cheap high, once favored only by teenage street kids, has now hooked a significant cross-section of society...
...leaves are laid out in the sun to dry. They are then soaked in a solution of water and kerosene, which releases the cocaine contained in the leaves. Peasants stomp on the soaking mixture for several hours to turn it into coca paste, which is then mixed with sulfuric acid, lime, potassium permanganate and more kerosene. The cream-colored substance that is left after the liquid is squeezed out is coca base, the raw material that is sent to refineries to be turned into cocaine. This transformation is accomplished by combining the paste with ether and acetone to remove impurities...
...chemicals at appropriate times is the basis of all biology. It's as old as life itself." So why single out the bombardier for harboring dangerous chemicals in its body? he asks. Why not the human digestive tract, for example? There the stomach walls are protected from the hydrochloric acid within by a layer of mucus, which, if damaged, would allow the potent acid to attack the stomach walls and be released into the body...