Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Annual Delta Gamma Sorority Party, Gainesville...
Behavioral Effects. The principal active element in marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), like alcohol, impairs motor coordination, the ability to follow a moving object and to detect a flash of light. Since these functions are necessary for safe driving, the report notes, their impairment "may suggest a substantial risk." The effects may last four to eight hours after the time the user feels a "high," unlike alcohol, which is more quickly metabolized. Marijuana hampers short-term memory, slows learning and produces distortions of judgment, including reactions of panic and confusion. Consequently, there is special concern since much of the heavy...
...addition to his work at the Arboretum. Lobig was a classical music announcer with the Boston radio station. WCRB, and hosted the station's Delta Opera House show on Sunday evenings. Heidi Jones, a spokesman for WCRB said yesterday. The station will dedicate its Sunday evening broadcast of Bizet's opera. The Pearl Fishers to the memory of Lobig, she added...
Continental Air Lines, which has furloughed 1,500 people, sustained a $60.4 million loss last year. United ran up a loss of $123.3 million in the fourth quarter, a startling reversal of the $40.6 million profit it earned during the same period in 1980. Even Delta, long the profit-making model for the industry, was hurting. Its fourth-quarter earnings were...
Sugar and spice and every known vice-that's what Beth Henley's plays are made of. The Delta ladies who inhabit Henley's comic universe can be found a few miles south of Jackson, Miss., and just this side of Bananas. There is Babe Botrelle, whose Crimes of the Heart are to shoot her piggish husband (because "I just didn't like his looks") and to keep close company with a 15-year-old black boy. Popeye Jackson, from The Miss Firecracker Contest, knits tiny jumpsuits for frogs and "can hear voices through my eyes...