Word: downers
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Word processors gave John A. Downer '80 and Wayne Williams a "technological edge" over fellow takers of an open book Criminal Law and Contracts exams this fall. Mary Upton, assistant dean of the Law School, said yesterday...
Upton is afraid that students will find "canned" answers in computer memory files besides being able to type faster. But Downer called these objections "ludicrous...
...they are coming at a price much higher than the Administration had expected the nation to pay. "None of us has predicted" an outright slump, Reagan confessed at his press conference last week. Now, however, Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan says the current quarter "may be a real downer." Moreover, while some Administration forecasters had earlier predicted a recovery beginning shortly after New Year...
...stuff, just transferred addictions. The government says we can't do dope, so we line up at the juice center and get methodone instead. Half the junkies out there are addicted to methodone and mixing it with other drugs. When I was on methadone, because it was such a downer, I would get my treatment dose, start to nod, them mix it with a little coke so I could keep tuned in. The withdrawal from methadone is far more severe than from heroin, and it takes months to get it out of your body system." The treatment, partly because...
Also missing is Latham's original point about the place and its habitues, which was a downer. He said it offered hardhats from the nearby refineries a chance to escape from their harsh, boring, workaday reality into a fantasy that was simultaneously readymade and hand-me-down. Duding up each night in western duds that no working cowboy would ever wear, the clock punchers also slip into a set of values that are as impractical for modern urban life as a pair of chaps. For a little while each night in Gilley's, they can play at being...