Word: gram
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Local police officials, however, suspected a drug overdose and obtained a search warrant to look through Kennedy's bags. They found slightly less than one gram of heroin. Four days later, Pennington County State's Attorney Rod Lefholz ordered the arrest of Bobby Kennedy for possession of heroin, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of two years in jail and a $2,000 fine. Kennedy is expected to be arraigned in Rapid City some time in the next two weeks...
Officials fear that as the powder's retail worth falls, new, less affluent buyers will become regular customers. The going price per gram is $75 to $100; the glut could cut that to $50 or even $25. Coke is reaching the streets in a purer, stronger form. All this worries Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner: "If the price drops and there is an increase in purity," he warns, "you're going to have a lot more deaths from snorting and free-basing...
SENTENCED. David Crosby, 41, singer-guitarist of the Byrds and later of the mellow folk-rock supergroup now known as Crosby, (Stephen) Stills and (Graham) Nash; to five years in prison for possession of a quarter-gram of cocaine and a firearm; in Dallas. Crosby, arrested while free-basing cocaine in his dressing room between Dallas rock-club performances last year, is on three years' probation for reckless driving in California...
...Senator from New York; for a new experimental treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the progressive neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease; at Good Samaritan Hospital; in Los Angeles. Javits will be injected with extremely high doses of thyrotropin releasing hormone, an expensive ($2,400 per gram) drug that has produced dramatic but short-term improvements in ALS victims...
...title is dreaming and distant and just right. In the rolling land of northern Ohio, during the middle years of the 20th century, a woman of no previous wealth inherited a hatful of money, bought a big house and some farm land and assumed matriarchal ways. This was Gram, who had five daughters and, though no one seemed to think the fact very important, a husband. Her style was regal-she would stomp out at night to play bingo whenever she felt like it-and her son-in-law Dan the butcher called her the Queen of Persia. She sheltered...