Word: druggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aggressively Christian, patriotic, mad as hell and resolved not to take it any more. The nation is on the Interstate to ruin, they feel. And, well, who doesn't these days, what with Soviet troops off the shores of Key West, the dollar sinking like the Lusitania, drug pushers in the schools, homosexuals in the pulpit, bureaucrats in just about everything, and goodness and patriotism generally on the run. Yet Harrell's Louisville pilgrims have converted these common gripes into obsessions...
They have even begun to follow the tribulations of a whole new generation: young Teddy's cancer, David's drug problems and Joe's driving accidents. Now, the Senator from Massachusetts is reasserting the family's claim to the White House...
...combat his illness, he had been undergoing drug treatments supervised by a team of French doctors...
...bloodbath. It was horrible." In the days after the crash, he says, several of his friends committed suicide, one by jumping off the Daily News Building, another by leaping from his commuter train. One man asked a friend of Jarvis how someone could kill himself without pain; a drug was mentioned and the next morning the questioner was dead. Two weeks later the man who advised him shot himself. "They went one after another," says Jarvis. "They couldn't stand it any more...
...rules, but has also increased the cost of bringing out new developments. Says Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca: "I never invent anything any more. Everything I do is to meet a law." In the early '60s it cost $1 million and took up to five years to bring a drug through the Federal Drug Administration's regulatory maze. It now costs $18 million and can take ten years. As a result, the number of new drugs introduced by U.S. pharmaceutical firms has fallen off 50%. Writes British Essayist Henry Fairlie: "The once rambunctious American spirit of innovation and adventurousness...