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Word: cokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bribe to get him to buy the contractor's armored personnel carriers. The president of the banana republic then gives the dollar as part of a kickback to the local drug king, who gives it to help pay a drug courier, who spends it to buy a Coke when it gets to the United States. But the cashier drops it on the street and you find it." By now we were back in my room...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Senior Class Spirit | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...into Eric's mother's home and demanded that she pay him the $200 her son owed him. Shortly thereafter, Eric entered a rehabilitation program called Pride. After four months, he emerged shaken but sober. He has dropped all his crack-smoking friends but worries about temptation. "Coke is still all around me," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Sell Crack | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...What kinda coke would ya like. Merck or Squibb? By the way, you know, we have a special on 'ludes--buy six, get one free...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Ending the Drug Prohibition | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet enterprises and ministries, which staged a four-day conference in Moscow in April to talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet leader described perestroika as an "invitation" to a business partnership with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perestroika To Pizza | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...face it, none of the candidates is in favor of drugs. Assailing crack and coke is a little like supporting apple pie and motherhood -- except that voters rarely get passionate about apple pie. Usually in a campaign, such unanimity on an issue would make it about as important as the debate over the Law of the Sea Treaty. But not so with drugs, especially not last week in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Drug Issue | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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