Word: acidizing
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Frazier's acid snobbery occasionally backfires. He angered early employers at such papers as Boston's Record American ("The readers all moved their lips when they read, but then so did the editors"). His views do not exactly coincide with those of the liberal Globe either. In 1971, after Frazier savaged the TV performance of five earnest young Boston reporters, attacking them mainly for looking tacky on camera, Editor Tom Winship sacked him. Frazier promptly hired a small plane to fly over a jammed local football stadium trailing a banner: BRING BACK GEORGE FRAZIER. He was soon rehired...
Kimberly Rath failed until now to make that traditional truce with the self where you are resigned to cropping both your hopes and losses. Failure had brought pain--with acid bummers riding her mind, with a bad trip to California, with sanpaku and Harley, who cared--maybe in the wrong ways. Kimberly must have felt scared, and something in her fear drove her to the place of this old and settled...
...Leslie Iverson, 36, of the British Medical Research Council's Division of Neurochemical Pharmacology, has been studying the chemical changes in brains of Huntington's victims. The team has found that victims of the disease have lower-than-normal quantities of the transmitter gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and occasionally-elevated amounts of dopamine. They are now trying to develop drugs that will restore the balance between these chemicals...
...lead would foul the device beyond repair. As a result, the EPA has ordered the oil industry to make lead-free gasoline available at all major gas stations by next summer. Another problem is that the converter emits minute amounts of yet another pollutant -a fine mist of sulfuric acid. One solution might be for refineries to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline...
...last September in San Francisco. Columbia had recently been rocked to its storage bins by the firing of its adroit, youthful (41) president, Clive Davis, on grounds of improperly diverting corporate funds to personal uses. Fears of a scandal concerning "drugola"-the alleged currying of favor by supplying acid, pot and cocaine to rock groups and disc jockeys-hung over the entire industry, Columbia included. When Davis' successor strode to the podium and began his remarks by quipping: "A funny thing happened to me on my way to retirement," everyone laughed-but not too hard. If there...