Word: gone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 20 years have seen few changes in Cambridge politics. Although politicians have come and gone, the basic makeup of the City Council has remained exactly the same since the mid-1970s...
...economic status, but William Hopkins, a leading narcotics expert working for the state of New York, estimates that 70% of New York City's drug users are affluent. Across the U.S., drug counselors report rising numbers of professionals -- doctors, nurses, accountants, professors -- trying to kick crack habits gone out of control. "We've got Wall Street executives who buy crack in the middle of the day and smoke it in the office," says Alan Horowitz, program director at A.C.I., a treatment center in New York City. "We had one air- traffic controller at J.F.K. airport who was smoking crack...
...still have to work very hard because everybody else is incredibly strong," Brita Lind said. "A lot of our games we have won could have gone the other...
...glad the eight-track has gone the way of its other inexplicable contemporaries like mood rings, platform shoes, pet rocks and one-night stands. The existence of this stuff makes me wonder what was in the water in the 1970s that created such hideous consumer instincts...
...exceedingly long in our room. Thus, I often pick up the receiver toward the start of the third pause and am already engrossed in conversation when one of my roommates gets around to answering the phone at what they mistakenly think is the tail end of the long-gone pause. In such cases, a "Hello?" suddenly punctuates my discourse, and I usually decide it's easier to say I'm schizophrenic than to explain what's really going...