Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the flurry of activity and proposals in the past few months threatens to obscure the most basic fact about drug use in America: border patrols, police raids and even random urinalysis are unlikely to have a lasting impact as long as there remains a demand for drugs and a general social tolerance of their use. A true change can come only if Americans are willing to say clearly -- to their workmates and schoolmates, to their neighbors and friends, to their communities and to themselves -- that drug use is not acceptable. If that is, in fact, one result...
...national crusade" against drugs last month, he was hard put to offer any specifics beyond suggesting that federal employees in "sensitive" jobs, like air- traffic controllers, be required to undergo drug testing. Until now the Administration has focused on interdiction -- catching drug smugglers and . their booty at the border. But while federal seizures of cocaine have increased tenfold in five years, the available supply on the street has not been dented...
...Administration would not be raising the question of Gramm-Rudman," says Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem. This week the House will take up a $2 billion-to-$3 billion antidrug package that will fund every weapon in the war on drugs, from more radar balloons for the border patrol to more drug-treatment centers in the ghetto...
Designating drugs a crisis now, the nation tears out its hair in public, calls out the Air Force, the border patrols, the Republicans, the Democrats. "War!" cry the city mayors. What does America mean to accomplish by this call to arms? The prosecution of criminals? The rescue of lives? A self- purgation -- all minds clean and alert again in a sweep...
...Canada have traditionally boasted that they share the world's longest undefended border. Last week, however, the two countries remained at odds over just where one begins and the other ends...