Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen Counter, associate professor of Neuroscience at the Medical School, will become the first director of the Harvard Foundation, a new organization for promoting racial understanding at the University...
...just that on early Saturday morning, July 18, in the company of two attractive, well-educated young women he had met at a party. At 5:30 they stopped at the Bini-Bon Restaurant near the halfway house; it is a threadbare bohemian place, open 24 hours. Behind the counter was Richard Adan, 22, an aspiring actor and playwright who worked the graveyard shift in the café, which is owned by his father-in-law Henry Howard. Adan took the "toughest duty," explains Howard, "because he was interested in people. Some curious types come in after midnight...
...other hand, he defends the policy of developing sophisticated weapons. His argument: "We are now facing very much more sophisticated, complex, accurate Soviet weapons. It is not fair, nor is it useful, to send anyone up against equipment of that kind in very unsophisticated, very crude but very numerous counter-weapons...
...Rapid Deployment Force. It is supposed to be the spearhead of a new global strategy that breaks free of the old obsession with preparing for a war in Europe to counter more varied threats. Weinberger often speaks of the U.S. as an "island nation" heavily dependent on imports of strategic materials. For example, 90% of the chromium needed for jet engines comes from Zimbabwe or South Africa; 90% of the cobalt vital to mining and machine tools is imported, mostly from Zaire. All are vulnerable to Soviet troublemaking or internal difficulties that could shut off supplies. The most serious threat...
...where heroin has become difficult to get or too expensive, a cheap-and dangerous-substitute has taken its place. Known as Ts and Blues, it is a mixture of Talwin, a morphine-like painkiller sold only by prescription, and Pyribenzamine, a blue antihistamine tablet available over the counter. They are stolen and sold to junkies for about $10 a pair, one-quarter the price of a hit of heroin. Mixed, dissolved and injected, they give a heroin-like rush-and quickly produce a heroin-like dependency. Says a drug addict in New Orleans, the nation's Ts and Blues...