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Rampant misuse and counterfeiting has prompted officials to clamp down on Quaalude. Nine states have banned its sale, and the Drug Enforcement Administration has required Lemmon to cut production from 58 million tablets in 1978 to 7.5 million this year. The Government has also gone after counterfeit Quaalude, which is smuggled into the U.S. in amounts estimated at up to a billion tablets a year. As a result of last week's announcement, the street-corner price of 'ludes doubled to as much as $10 a tablet, in contrast with about 70? in a drugstore...
...Administration's latest effort to clamp a lid on Government secrets would have been a secret in itself if its designers could have had their way. A national security directive authorizing wider use of lie detectors to plug leaks and ordering senior federal officials to clear speeches and articles about classified topics for the rest of their lives was signed by President Reagan late on a Friday last March. That is when bureaucrats head home for the weekend and Washington correspondents relax their vigilance. When the order was discovered by reporters-Congress had been given no advance notice-Justice...
...will do too little. He acknowledged that the Federal Reserve has been tightening over the past six weeks, and hinted that it will continue to do so. But he denied that the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's policymaking arm, had decided last week to clamp down hard on money. The day before Volcker testified, the twelve-member group completed a two-day meeting at which it determined guidelines for the next 18 months. "We haven't taken any strong action recently," Volcker insisted. "Anything I'd characterize as drastic isn't going...
...economy. One of the biggest causes of concern at present is the rapid growth of the money supply. Since March, the basic pool known as M1 has increased at an annual rate of 13.5%, to $508.5 billion, fueling fears that the Federal Reserve will soon have to clamp down, sending interest rates back up. Federal Reserve officials have been arguing that the increase in the M1 figure was an aberration and that the broader-based statistics for money growth, M2 and M3, showed that the Federal Reserve still has the money supply under control. Figures released last week showed that...
Nobody wants to clamp the damper of crabbed age on the irreverent enthusiasms of youth, but always there comes a point. Lot's just take the omnibus cheer you mention. "Asshole, asshole, midget, sieve! and apply a little analysis...