Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kick the habit was reported last week by two New York City physicians. It involves switching from heroin, which can cost the addict $25 or more a day-and is almost certain to involve him in crime -to methadone, a relatively harmless drug that costs 10? for a daily dose. Methadone's only significant side effect is constipation...
...illicit sex. In permitting the book's publication abroad, Soviet authorities may have been disarmed by its moral: Russia's GUMshoes are efficient, decent. and humane. After deciding that one of the outlaws, a 17-year-old poet, is guilty of nothing more than an immoderate dose of vodka, they talk the public prosecutor's office into letting him go. Relentlessly methodical police routine brings the other culprits to book...
...FRANCE. After a government dose of deflation that cut the growth rate in half (to 2.6%), the economy is picking up again. Weak spots: auto sales, textiles, chemicals, shoes, construction. One strength: low unemployment...
...Communist intent was clearly to capture Quangngai, the provisional capital. And well they might have-except for a hot dose of U.S. airpower. The handful of government reserves held tight in Quangngai as a Red barrage from mortars, recoilless rifles and howitzers thundered against the Bagia redoubt. Reports from a detachment of montagnard mercenaries, who bravely scouted the area on bicycles, showed that the Viet Cong were less than a mile from the town. In the dark before dawn, monsoon clouds hung wet and heavy over Quangngai, but there was just enough room for a flight of C-123 "flareships...
...bamboo shoots marinated in buffalo blood, ant eggs, fried bee larvae and tree lizards in chili sauce. These dishes are tasty, but they also contain liver flukes, hookworms and other parasites; as a result, fully 90% of all northeasterners suffer from one or an other debilitating disease. Government teams dose whole villages with worming medicines, distribute pamphlets saying, "Please eat hot food," but it will be generations before the northeasterners change their diets completely...