Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hexalite, a cushiony substance used in Reebok's newest soles. Not just athletic shoes, they are space-age wonders that boast such features as air- cylinder suspension systems, anatomically molded ankle collars, outrigger soles and adjustable support straps. They answer to names like Air Skylon, 360 Jam, Disc-Drive and Tiger Gel Epirus. Manufacturers are bombarding customers with different models for "technical" and "nontechnical" running, for walking, wrestling and even coaching and cheerleading...
...savings-and-loan industry. Sununu pulled out an ad the bankers were running trying to scare depositors away from S & Ls and into banks. "I take it, then," he growled, "this sort of thing will stop." When a utility boss complained that Bush's clean-air proposals would drive up his electricity rates, Sununu retorted that the utility already enjoyed rates below the national average, which the Government subsidized...
Siegel, a scientific consultant on the nature of drug addiction to two presidential commissions, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the World Health Organization, is not the first expert to conclude that the desire to alter one's state of consciousness is a drive as elemental as hunger, thirst and sex. But he takes the argument a radical step further by proposing that society would be best served if it accepted the inevitability of intoxication and launched an all-out effort to invent less damaging, nonaddictive substitutes for alcohol and the popular illicit drugs...
...attacks from conservatives and skepticism from those who have fought and conquered addictions, but his ideas are respected by drug authorities. Says Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a Harvard psychiatrist and author of several books on drugs: "I have come to the view that humans have a need -- perhaps even a drive -- to alter their state of consciousness from time to time." Pioneer drug researcher Dr. Andrew Weil of the University of Arizona College of Medicine confirms that view: "There is not a shred of hope from history or from cross-cultural studies to suggest that human beings can live without psychoactive...
...Competitiveness is a factor, I'm sure, as with all siblings. But I was the first one to go into this work, and the drive was there from...