Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Booker Prize, David Lurie, a white professor of communications, assesses his life: "He is in good health, his mind is clear... He lives within his income, within his temperament, within his emotional means. Is he happy? By most measurements, yes, he believes he is." And then comes the first crack in the wall of his self-satisfaction: "However, he has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until he is dead...
Industry representatives support uniform regulation but hope officials don't go too far in their zeal to crack down. "It's a critical option that every terminally ill person should have," says Valerie Cooper, executive director of the NVA, who claims scam artists don't represent the bulk of law-abiding viatical providers, like Page & Associates and the Ardan Group. Gloria Wolk, chief consumer advocate for viaticals www.viatical-expert.net) is worried that money for legitimate viatical settlements could disappear: "Fraud can destroy this industry and leave patients high...
JAIL BAIT How much crack does it take to get sent up for five years? The Senate held hearings in Washington last week about reducing the minimum-mandatory-sentencing (MMS) guidelines to bring the powder-cocaine limit down from 500 g to 50 g--closer to the 5 g of crack that gets you a nickel...
...DRUG Crack cocaine MMS AMOUNT 5 g STREET PRICE $425 USERS Urban RESULT OF INGESTING SUPPLY Death by cardiac arrest...
...enough to put a smile on Bill Bennett's face, new numbers from the private antidrug group Partnership for a Drug Free America show that drug use among teens aged 13 to 18 declined or leveled off from 1997 to 1999. That includes experimental and regular use of marijuana, crack and cocaine...