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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prices in American currency are extremely low. Pravds costs about three cents, an ice cream sandwich a dime; a package of cigarettes, a quarter; subway entrance costs only five cents; and a voluminous bottle of horrible beer goes for about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Russia With Doubts | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than $2, no more than a beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Let Them Shoot Smack | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...Maybe it seems silly to strike for frats, but what kind of college needs a hunger strike to get the attention of the administration? "In some fraternities," Amherst President G. A. Craig told the Boston Globe last month, "you'll see several hundred people standing wall to wall drinking beer and inhaling God knows what chemicals." If Craig doesn't know what chemicals they are, then what business does he have being a college president...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Whither The Frats? | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

...like, chances are they'll be in for a big surprise. Sure, there are kids who still read Shakespeare and get turned on by multivariable calculus, but most of today's youth--or so modern filmmakers would have us believe--would rather sit around smoking pot and drinking beer than applying themselves to their studies...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Angelic Trash | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

...below the stadium where the Olympic flame burns, it spreads like the curved wing of a dove .... stretched out over the snow. Inside, there are comfortable wooden seats, polite ushers and concession stands that sell chocolate and local brandy, a better fix against a winter night than popcorn and beer. Yet to hear of the doings in the figure-skating competition that took place in this outwardly cheerful spot last week was to confuse sport with war dispatches. There were hints of dark intrigue ind geopolitical vote swapping. East met West, West met West, East met East, and almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Little Touch of Heaven | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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