Word: grams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quakers exploited the difference in skill early. At 13:37, Penn forward David Cardi found fellow frontrunner Jan Gram-merslorf from the left with a low cross through a goalmouth crowd. The Quaker striker settled the ball, then cracked a hard drive past Crimson goalkeeper Phil Coogan to the far post...
...would normally be purchased by a well-established drug dealer on behalf of a consortium of investors. From that initial buy, the coke can change hands several times, with the drug "cut" or adulterated each time until it is about 20% pure. On a Los Angeles street corner, a gram of coke sells for about $120. One gram can then be divvied up into about ten "lines" for sniffing. An infrequent user who might snort just a couple of lines at a party, compared to 20 lines a day for a heavy user, can buy by the quarter...
...Edith," 24, a registered nurse, had a three-gram, $300-a-day habit. She went on binges, took coke intravenously and started mixing it with such drugs as heroin, morphine and Demerol. "The highs were terrific," she says, "but the lows outweighed them by a mile." When she signed a contract with the Denver clinic, she agreed to write two letters: one to her parents, confessing her dependence on cocaine and asking that they no longer support her; the other to the state board of nursing, admitting her habit and turning in her license. The letters were to remain...
...expense of deterrence, rearmament at the expense of arms control. Most policymakers in the Administration acknowledge that war fighting makes sense (and rather shaky sense at that) only as an extension of deterrence #151; deterrence by other means, as Clausewitz might have put it. In its rearmament pro gram, however, the Administration has concentrated too much on the development of more big-ticket nuclear weapons and not enough on building up conventional forces. If America's conventional defenses were stronger, they would constitute a more credible deterrent to Soviet aggression, thereby reducing U.S. reli ance on a nuclear last resort...
Japanese merchants have had a toehold on the U.S. gram trade since the 1950s, when they first set up export offices in West Coast port cities like San Francisco and Seattle to buy foodstuffs for Japan. The island nation of 116 million people is a principal grain importer and now buys some $6 billion a year from the U.S., its biggest supplier. In 1973, after a grain shortage squeezed the worldwide market for soybeans, a major Japanese grain import from the U.S., the anxious Japanese traders began moving inland to buy directly from farmers in an effort to secure...