Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken at home. When leukemia was again found in Chad's blood early in 1978, Mrs. Green reluctantly admitted that she had not been giving Chad his pills. "Chemotherapy doesn't cure," said Diana Green in desperation. Instead, the parents had been giving the boy Laetrile, a drug which is illegal for use in cancer treatment in Massachusetts, and which repeated medical studies have found useless for that purpose...
Neighborhood paraphernalia dealers blossomed as fast as the drug culture, flowering on corners across the nation with a wide assortment of cigarette rolling papers, small pipes, cocaine spoons, psychedelic lights and other legal appurtenances for high living. But for many officials,the head shops serve as a too-blatant reminder of the losing battle against drugs...
DIED. F.W. Dupee, 74, literary critic and longtime professor of English at Columbia University (1948-71); of a drug overdose; in Carmel, Calif. A Chicago-born graduate of Yale who worked as a Marxist labor organizer in the 1930s, Dupee in 1937 helped recast as anti-Stalinist the Partisan Review, a radical literary magazine founded three years earlier. Eschewing his political extremism, he eventually achieved prominence as a Henry James scholar, popular poetry teacher and elegant writer on figures ranging from Sir Richard Burton to Charlie Chaplin...
...productivity been so sluggish? Groping for explanations, economists cite a variety of possible factors, from drug abuse to the doctrines of John Maynard Keynes?which, some contend, led policymakers to pay too much attention to manipulation of total demand in the economy and too little to productivity...
...they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average of more than 20% a year on shareholders' equity, a return higher than that enjoyed by the leading firms in such high-profit industries as oil refining, auto, drug and computer manufacturing...