Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing number of those frustrated by the futility of the drug war. The 74 years of federal prohibition that have passed since the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 have been a costly and abject failure, they say, and the effort is doomed. It has mainly served to create huge profits for drug dealers, overcrowded jails, a distorted foreign policy and urban areas terrorized by bloodthirsty gangs. So why not end all these problems in a way that would save money, perhaps even raise it, and free more resources to treat addiction and abuse? Why not just make drugs legal...
...investments in the stocks that make up a particular index. But the futures also gave investors the opportunity to engage in index arbitrage, a practice in which they can reap quick profits from temporary, often minor discrepancies between the two markets by launching simultaneous, computer-driven program trades of huge blocks of stock in New York and index futures in Chicago...
VARSITY Liquor is moving out. The little store wedged into a corner of the Square next to the Tasty has been serving the neighborhood for more than 50 years. Although the Varsity could never boast a huge selection, students could always count on it for beer or booze for extracurricular activities...
...drunken driving, a familiar Oriole road that Earl Weaver had swerved down before him. A manager is scarcely a manager if his nose has never required batteries. Tommy Lasorda, who for insurance reasons has removed the beer keg from his Dodger Stadium office, tells some funny stories about the huge consumers he has managed -- not including the ones who had to take time to dry out, like the young pitcher Bob Welch. Interestingly, Newcombe had approved of Lasorda's office tap. "It kept the players from grabbing six packs to go," he says. "Now I wish the Dodgers would stop...
...currency-hungry China, the pandas are more popular ambassadors than Ping-Pong players. China rents out the animals for as much as $500,000 apiece for six months, while zoos rake in huge profits from increased attendance and souvenir sales. Says A.A.Z.P.A. Executive Director Robert Wagner: "If we don't watch what we're doing, we could love the giant panda into extinction in the next five years." Although Toledo will probably get its pandas, future short-term loans are in doubt...