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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 on his breaks...
...single or divorced, with a high- pressure job, little inner peace and a history of moderate drug use and heavy drinking. "They're extremists, hard drivers, workaholics," says Rosecan. "With an all-or-nothing personality and a history of drug experimentation, you've got a formula for disaster when this person tries crack...
...will stop doing business with brokerages that use index arbitrage. At week's end the New York Stock Exchange said it will consider ways to tighten the rules governing program trading. Said Richard Grasso, the exchange president: "As a marketplace that has almost 47 million individual investors, we have got to be concerned about anything that might be harmful to those constituents...
...wasn't until she arrived at Yale that she felt she belonged and that her creativity and diligence were fully appreciated. But something happened during her junior year in Denmark to mar that feeling of assimilation. She got on a bus in Copenhagen one day and became acutely aware that people moved away from her. It was the first time in her life that she felt discriminated against...
...city during the Freedom Rides of 1961. "George Wallace once said to me," Whitesell recalls, "that the thing that always kept the South down was that the minute the South recovered from the Civil War, they started sending money to the North for bronze statues. We've got a bunch of them here, and I think you'll find that most people don't give a damn about memorials." He sees the real reason for the memorial this way: "A wonderful fund raiser for Morris. He came to Montgomery to do good, and he's done very well...