Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rocks. The little pellets are usually smoked in glass pipes. "Crack is a whole new ball game," says James Hall, executive director of Up Front, a Miami drug-information center. "It's an extremely compulsive drug, much more so than regular cocaine. The rush is so intense and the crash so powerful that it keeps users --even first-time users-- focused on nothing but their next hit." Police in Florida have noticed increases in burglaries and armed robberies in areas where crack is sold. Says Captain Robert Lamont of the Dade County police narcotics division: "These are the crimes that...
...also boarded the giant C- 141 en route to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It was Dover that received the bodies of the 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, killed in Beirut in 1983 and the 248 U.S. Army Airborne victims of last year's plane crash in Gander, Newfoundland...
...implicated students--six from Weld Hall and one from Straus Hall--will be required to leave for one year for crashing Harvard's computer system three times during the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) testing. One Weld Hall freshman will be put on probation for one year for helping crash the system one time, said Thomas T. Sugiura '89, roommate of two of the freshmen...
...weight but still see themselves as fat. Bulimics are more difficult to diagnose because they binge and then purge, not greatly affecting body weight. The most difficult type of eating disorder to diagnose is the irregular eating habit. Large numbers of students pursue very unhealthy eating patterns, going on crash diets, eating unbalanced meals, binging on sweets...
...most vulnerable are those who find themselves on crash diets, says Honnet. "Male athletes, especially wrestlers and rowers, can develop bad habits. Both use drastic measures to get down to unrealistic weights...