Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Volume set another record, rising to 240 million. At the end of Wall Street's most hectic week, the Dow stood at 1758.72, down 161 from its September high. On the Big Board, losers outnumbered winners 4 to 1 on Friday. The American Stock Exchange and the over-the-counter markets also suffered steep drops...
...cheap tests now in use yield up to 20% "false positives," raising the threat that many people who do not use drugs will nonetheless be denied employment -- while drug users who manage to stay clean for a few days before a test beat the system. Advocates of testing counter that false positives can be diminished by subjecting all urine that shows signs of drug use to further, more sophisticated examination. But those retests can cost $100 each, and many employers may not want to pay the price. The cost of administering such tests to even a sampling...
...This is a drug society. We have prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs and drugs you can buy in the grocery store," says Dr. Ronald K. Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at UCLA. "We have to understand that the drive to intoxication is irrepressible, unstoppable. It functions almost like hunger and sex. Our species has always gotten high on something, long before we were fully civilized primates...
...light, and in the soothing precinct of his mother's remembered body. What anxiety was to Giacometti or sexual rage to Picasso, nurture and shelter were to Moore. His commitment to sculpture as an act of hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with the hands, one in which sight preceded touch. (Who ever wanted to stroke a Gonzalez or a David Smith?) His impulse to preserve the traditional values of carving...
...called attention to what he termed a "danger" but did not propose any measures to counter...