Word: grams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move, like everything else connected with the $6.9 billion shuttle pro gram, required precise planning. For months, engineers from NASA and Rockwell International had been surveying the route to Edwards, relocating telephone poles and overseeing the resurfacing of 16 kilometers (10 miles) of gravel road so that it could withstand the shuttle's 68,000-kilogram (150,000-lb.) weight. They also constructed a special trailer to carry the craft, a 90-wheel affair designed to be steered both from the front and the rear like a hook-and-ladder truck...
...Amsterdam's junkies have increased to an estimated 7,000, Italy's from 1,000 to 6,000. Overdose deaths in Europe will top 300 by year's end. Yet supplies are so plentiful that street prices in Paris have dropped from $120 to $60 a gram in the past six months-thus making it cheaper to lure new addicts. Profits are enormous. A kilo of No. 4 heroin bought for $1,650 in Thailand or Burma commands $32,000 on the streets of Europe...
TCDD is so toxic, according to one scientist, that a single gram is capable of killing thousands of people. The gas can cause blistering, and damage to the liver, spleen, kidneys, respiratory tract and nervous system; it may also cause deformities in unborn children...
...Flying Burrito Brothers and Keith Carradine. The Brothers without Gram Parsons, and Keith Carradine without talent, at Paul's Mall, tonight through August...
...current probe, Prosecutor Woodcock got court permission to exhume five of the bodies. Then he sent tissue samples off to different specialists, some of whom used detection techniques so subtle they can identify a substance weighing only a trillionth of a gram...