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Such reports underscore a dismaying fact: for nearly every item of good news on the drug front, there is at least one bad-news bulletin. While the U.S. has made significant progress in curbing casual drug use, it has made far less headway on the problems that most trouble the public, hard-core addiction and drug-related violence. Last year the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that the number of current users of illegal drugs had fallen to 14.5 million from 23 million in 1985. But while there was a dramatic decrease in the number of occasional users...
...embracing democratic structures are coming to replace the command system in managing the country's affairs. We have made headway in dismantling monopolies both in politics and in the economy. At the party congress we're going to have to discuss quite thoroughly how the party is to act in a situation of real political pluralism, how it is going to fit into a multiparty system. This is going to be an important task, crucial to the future both of the party and of the country...
Even without needed resources, the Justice Department insists it is making some headway. The FBI boasts 770 convictions involving major bank fraud in 1989, with $361 million in restitution ordered by courts, up 200% from 1987. A five-year extension of the statute of limitations, obtained last August, should help prosecutors. Even so, investigators agree that many of the biggest scoundrels are still at large. Besides lack of manpower, prosecutors must contend with the enormous complexity of the crimes, the murkiness of the line between fraud and ineptitude, and the difficulty of conveying all this to juries...
Although WWP members say they have made some headway into Local 8751, an AFL-CIO steelworkers' union, communists have generally not had much luck with the traditional revolutionary tactic of labor agitation. According to Lawrence, they are more often baited by unionized workers than they are welcomed with open arms...
Trying to represent the varied needs of undergraduate women--and make headway in what has been for centuries a closed, white, male bastion--is an uphill and thank-less job. I, for one, am grateful that Linda Wilson has chosen to take on that struggle...