Word: cents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...likely that 10 per cent of Harvard drinkers will later become problem drinkers or alcoholics. We may never notice their addiction, because it may take years to develop. One of the pernicious things about alcohol addiction is the length of time it can take to overwhelm a person's life. Your roommate who occasionally gets "silly" on weekends may, in 20 years, be a violent, broken alcoholic...
While expressing a strangely mixed concern for those destroying themselves with drugs, American politicians continue to support the same illogical policies which have helped increase the potency of marijuana 600 per cent in the last 15 years...
PHILIP Morris and other tobacco giants are, for once, on the defensive. Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, secretary of Health and Human Services, has taken on the merchants of death, denouncing their marketing tactics. The state of California has instituted a 35-cent per pack tax, despite a tobacco-industry lobbying campaign that was sleazy even by the standards of cigarette companies. (The tax will be used to finance a hard-hitting anti-smoking campaign). And a courageous few top athletes are starting, at long last, to challenge the tobacco industry's sponsorship and association with fitness contests such...
...passion as relentless as teenage infatuation; and a melody almost Viennese in its air of casual resignation, introduced to the lyric "Life goes on, love goes free." Aspects of Love may go on for years. It is, however, far from free: the top price is $55, and worth every cent...
...There were about 30 shows [last term] and only four had women directors. Upwards of 60 per cent of the HRDC members are women," Bishop said...