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Word: gram (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state legislature imposed a sales tax on marijuana, cocaine and other illegal drugs. The law will require dealers to purchase tax stamps that display either a marijuana leaf with a slash through it or a skull and crossbones, and affix them to packages of drugs. The price: $5 per gram of marijuana; $250 per gram of cocaine and other drugs; and $2,000 per 50 pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Licking Drugs With Stamps | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...vaguely unpleasant memory for most consumers. The highway signs are largely gone, and the pumps dole out gas mostly by the gallon again. The few visible monuments to metric conversion include liter bottles of soda and liquor, time-and-temperature signs that * still flash degrees in Celsius, and gram equivalents on food containers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE What Ever Happened to Metric? | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...tournament, and had been allaying Massimino's suspicions with transparent lies. "I honestly believe nothing ever came of it not because he didn't have enough to go on but because he had so much." Before the semifinal game against Memphis State, McLain says he did a quarter-gram of coke in the bathroom of his hotel. The true attitude of the smiling backcourtman, the beautiful dreamer of all the glorious press dispatches, came down to this: "I just wanted the season to be over." He says, "Now I wish Coach Mass had tested me then, or got me some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coming to The Four with More | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Siracuse also said he thought the people at the dinner he was attending when he received the strip-a-gram enjoyed themselves. "The whole thing was very funny. It was hilarious, everyone had a good laugh. It's not something I feel bad about. I certainly don't condemn my roommates for doing it," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sending Strip-a-grams: A Different Kind of Gift | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

David Schrag '89, who witnessed Fleischer's strip-a-gram in the Mather dining hall said, "While it wasn't all that interesting and I was wondering how far she would go, I don't think it's sexist or exploitative. I'm not against it as a principle. It was all in good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sending Strip-a-grams: A Different Kind of Gift | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

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