Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California authorities believe that 20% of the addicts in the state have used designer dope. And, says Pharmacologist Gary Henderson, an expert on designer drugs at the University of California at Davis, the drugs are now favored by affluent cocaine users as a way of taking the "edges" off coke...
...official explained that the company offers businesses storage for data backup against the threat of disaster. "Earthquakes, fires, these things are very positive for us." Saboteurs are also positive peddling points, he said, as well as employee drug addicts selling information for dope. He spoke proudly of "seismic bracing" in the company's storage vaults...
...while chairman of the Dallas-based LTV Corp. and a director of four other companies, he passed confidential information to Harris on Anheuser- Busch's $560 million acquisition of Campbell Taggart, a Dallas food conglomerate. Thayer also allegedly tipped Harris to two other merger deals. The inside dope netted $1.9 million in illegal profits for Harris along with Thayer's onetime companion Sandra Ryno, a former receptionist at LTV, and six other Thayer friends. Ryno gave the Government incriminating information against her friends and was not charged. Although prosecutors will recommend leniency, Thayer and Harris could face a maximum five...
Another big seller is "square grouper," sly fisherman talk for the bales of marijuana smuggled ashore. Dope has brought a glitzy prosperity to many sleepy towns: dreamily painted vans have replaced rusted pickup trucks, and stone crabbers undo the top buttons of their work shirts to display gold chains...
...planes that didn't make it." The drug trade has apparently also wrecked the image of Colombians. Says Diederich: "A Colombian told me that because of the way U.S. Customs officials deal with his countrymen, he feels like a fourth-class citizen whenever he has to present his passport. Dope has marked every Colombian, even the law-abiding ones...