Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While his roommates have been supportive, opposing fans have predictably singled Ohno out as a special target. Ohno's name, stitched conspicuously across the back of his Crimson jersey, makes him the easiest target among Harvard players for crowd heckling...
...airline industry, the code of pride and honor that has kept most pilots and air-traffic controllers sober over the years may be seriously eroding. In September 1984 a pilot for a major international airline called 800-COCAINE, a New Jersey-based hot line that provides treatment referral and information. He said that he had been up for three days straight snorting cocaine and that he was scheduled to fly a passenger jet to Europe that night. He was feeling exhausted and paranoid, he confided, but was sure he could stay awake and alert if he just kept taking drugs...
...drugs that they become a menace to everyone around them. A meter reader for a Washington utility became crazed after taking PCP and ran from one backyard to another. He hid behind bushes and jumped out and screamed at frightened neighborhood residents until police arrested him. In New Jersey a dentist who injected himself with three syringes of cocaine every morning as he drove down the turnpike to work began to complain that the fillings he was putting into patients' mouths were talking to him. His partners quickly forced the dentist to sell his share of the practice...
Many professionals have ridden their drug habits to bankruptcy and homelessness. Bob, a Wall Street trader, was so hooked on cocaine that he lost his job and wound up eating out of garbage cans and living on the streets. David, an attorney in New Jersey, spent $60,000 on cocaine in 1983 and frequently free-based cocaine in his office. Fearing that invisible people were watching him at all hours, he nailed shut the windows in his house and covered them with sheets, but still believed they were coming through the walls. Both men now regularly attend meetings of Cocaine...
...concrete from just two Mob-related companies, even though the area offers 26 suppliers. The commission urged the Administration to develop a "national strategy" against organized crime. Merely jailing mobsters has not broken their power over the marketplace, the panel says. By the beginning of 1982, some 113 New Jersey longshoremen had been convicted of racketeering, but most of those same players, or their successors, are back on the scene. Furthermore, federal prosecutors are just starting to make use of long-enacted criminal conspiracy laws. In one of the first such cases, six reputed members of the Gambino crime family...