Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police custody. But Smith, who had been with Belushi all night, was not charged with any crime. Two months later, the tabloid National Enquirer reportedly paid her $15,000 for an interview. The paper quoted her (inaccurately, she claims) as saying that she had given Belushi the fatal hypodermic dose...
...West Germans, or more than 10% of the working population, are now unemployed. The public sector is deeply in the red: the combined federal, state and local budget deficit for 1983 is expected to exceed $31 billion. The antidote that Kohl offered on the campaign trail was a stiff dose of government austerity coupled with incentives to foster free enterprise...
...Self-Deliverance, a suicide manual distributed to the 8,000 members of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society. When the famed 77-year-old writer (Darkness at Noon), who suffered from Parkinson's disease, decided two weeks ago that his life was intolerable, he reportedly swallowed the finely calibrated dose of drugs prescribed by the society. Sharing the fatal potion was his wife Cynthia, 55, who apparently believed she could not endure life without him. When police found the Koestlers in their London town house, husband and wife were seated in an upstairs room, in a macabre tableau of family...
...those words. Last week at his home in London, he died by them at the age of 77. The "rootless cosmopolitan," as he styled himself, had been an ardent supporter of "autoeuthanasia," and when the suffering of old age and disease grew in supportable, he reportedly took a lethal dose of drugs. His third wife, Cynthia, 56, joined him in the apparent double suicide. Koestler's act was in keeping with his principles. Throughout his long career, he had been attacked for taking a variety of political, moral and intellectual positions. But no one had ever accused...
...community." The town's troubles are not likely to lead to a bust similar to the one Aspen experienced after Congress repealed the Sherman Silver-Purchase Act in 1893. But the Silver Queen is, as Cab Driver Dave Knowles puts it, "getting a good dose of reality...