Word: grams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every day that in the course of such a dance, the person strews off most of his or her clothes to reveal a G-string or lacy black underwear. But lately, students have begun to take advantage of this slightly off-color gift--the strip-a-gram...
Because there are no easy outs from the second circle of hell, that's why. Those stuck there have three choices: getting a personality transplant, being extravagantly generous--buy everyone in your entryway a gram of coke!--or teaching yourself solitaire. As the president of a final club once remarked to me, "The meek might inherit the earth, but they won't get punched for the Porc...
...powerful form known variously as base, baseball, gravel, rock, roxanne and, more commonly, crack. Crack is cocaine boiled down (it makes a cracking sound when heated) into crystalline balls that can be smoked. "Crack is like throwing gas on the cocaine fire," says Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user two or three blissful joyrides. Coke sniffers so constrict their nasal passages that they can no longer snort the stuff, while heroin users must constantly search...
...separate computer system links florists in New York with Candy-Gram shops in Oregon. Another yokes travel agents to airlines and hotels around the world. Others bind together bank tellers, brokers, car rental chains, defense contractors, factory robots, police departments, university labs, intelligence agencies and the vast U.S. military machine. Says Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the networking system called Ethernet: "It's like one big nervous system...
...ghettos, the economics of crack has created a lucrative cottage industry. Organized crime has not yet taken over the trade, police believe. Instead, a small-time dealer in Los Angeles can buy an ounce of cocaine for $1,000 to $1,500. Since each ounce contains 28 grams and each gram can produce up to six rocks that he can sell for as much as $25 each, the dealer can realize a profit of around...