Word: depressant
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Coley said that drugs such as Rohypnol pose dangers because when combined with even a small quantity of alcohol, they can severely depress the central nervous system, causing asphyxiation...
...shelters. Foreign investors might get spooked by the chaos and yank money from South Korea. Then there are the long-term problems of integrating the high-tech South Korean economy and the more primitive North Korean one. The new flood of cheap North Korean labor and land would potentially depress wages and property prices in the South. Plus, South Korean industry might stamp out the North's own, less efficient businesses?a plight experienced by many East German companies...
...cloud of suspicion that has been hanging over the conglomerate. For years, critics like Prudent Bear Fund manager David Tice have alleged that Kozlowski was using aggressive, although not illegal, accounting methods to overstate the earnings of a collection of slow-growth businesses. By encouraging a company to depress its earnings just before it was acquired, usually in the form of large write-offs of intangible assets, the critics assert, Tyco made its subsequent growth appear that much stronger...
...result was the continuation of the socio-economic subordination of African-Americans in American society. After the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the system of discrimination enforced by law was transformed into institutional forms of de facto discrimination that have continued to depress the status of black Americans. Beyond mere history, it is this continuing and on-going legacy of harm from slavery that is at the core of the case for reparations...
...Posters are more upbeat than in years past because we’re aware that it is October 11th,” Tremitiere said. “We don’t need anything more to depress us today...