Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know why other threats that are ever present -- from nuclear holocaust to world hunger to environmental disaster -- seem to obsess the national consciousness in cycles. Perhaps it is the sheer insidiousness of crack, the newly popular, highly potent form of cocaine that can in short order transform the casual pleasure seeker into an addict. Perhaps it is the perception that drugs have spread into the workplace and the neighborhood, that they have arrived like the wolf at the door, or at least next door...
...quiet respect, he greets Governor Michael S. Dukakis and his other distinguished hosts. The Prince listens politely to the band perform and walks to the waiting crowd where he stops to chat with a few people. One girl can't stop smiling after she curtseys. Another woman acts casual while in conversation, but after is agog at what has just happened...
...researchers have long been afraid that AIDS, which destroys the body's natural defenses against disease, would spread rapidly once it reached the subcontinent. Known as HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, the AIDS microbe is transmitted by sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and contaminated needles, though not, say researchers, by casual contact with infected persons. During pregnancy, infected women can pass the virus on to their unborn children...
...could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny touches as violinists serenading customers as they climb stairs to the dining room. Nevertheless, Manhattan's Maxim's is merely a model; Cardin is planning a series of casual eateries called L'Omnibus de Maxim's, after the cafe L'Omnibus already operating in New York, and a chain of Maxim's Suite Hotels. The first is soon to open in Palm Springs. Says Monty Zullo, general manager of Maxim's American operations: "All along the line, plans involve...
...providing clean needles, the state would only encourage drug use, a greater threat to public health than AIDS itself. Rutledge's proposal would attempt to guard against this by requiring tests to ensure that people who accept the needles are in fact hooked on drugs and not simply casual experimenters...