Word: fix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes it difficult to get a true fix on the nation's position is the permanent characteristic of the age-the bewildering speed of change. The fact is often stated. But just recognizing it is little help in trying to grasp the impact. In the past three generations, the everyday life of Western man has changed more than it did in the previous 2,000 years. A revolution in farm technology has shifted huge populations into teeming cities. Already 73% of Americans live on only 1% of the land; by 1985, U.S. cities will swell by the equivalent...
James LeBlanc, 32 and white, has been a heroin addict for ten years, dur ing which he has thrice been convicted of larceny. Each time he robbed, he says, it was to buy a fix. Now he is in New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center where, seven days a week, he takes an orange drink laced with gradually increasing doses of methadone...
...doses of methadone be come tolerant in the sense that they observe no outward effect from it. Presumably because methadone works on the same brain centers as heroin, it induces a cross-tolerance to heroin and blocks its effects. A methadone patient can be challenged with a massive mainline fix and show no response-except enormous relief at the knowledge that now he can take it or leave it alone. He can watch his old friends shooting horse and feel no desire to join them...
...innovation the board could not have proposed itself is beside the point, College administrators (like Grayson Kirk) forced to handle student discipline by themselves are in a hopeless bind because they do not have the authority to make their decisions stick. Here the Faculty has the final power to fix punishments and yesterday its members rightly decided by a two to one margin that the Administration formula was too barsh...
...never know what messing around in space might do for us. Maybe we'll discover a super new source of easy energy that will fix it all up just fine...