Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequently ran articles of purported instances where one marijuana cigarette had led previously respectable citizens to commit crimes of violence or had sent them into fits of insanity. The stories, of course, were told in lurid detail and did much to boost sales. These imaginative stories, combined with the mistaken belief that the drug was highly addictive, led to a series of laws which, while not banning medical uses outright, imposed severe taxes on such uses. As a result, prescription of the drug fell to insignificance...
...deteriorating Italian situation. In Washington, in talks with Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gardner emphasized his worry that the Administration's low-key approach to Eurocommunism-a stance he himself had urged-had left some Italian politicians with the mistaken impression that the U.S. did not care...
Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," it used to be thought, took laughter too far, into the realm of farce. Mistaken identities between brothers and sisters and confusions of masters and servants abound. But the point is that by the end of the play everybody has been drawn into the act. And the play admits its own artificiality along with the weaknesses we all have. Hopefully the carefully chosen Scenes from the Comedy of Errors at the Loeb Ex will show just that. Performances are tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday...
...these "good" cholesterol-disposing HDLs in the bloodstream, as opposed to the "bad" cholesterol-depositing LDLs. Some tactics for doing that are already available. At Stanford University, researchers have discovered that middle-aged male runners have HDL levels nearly 50% higher than their peers; their levels might be mistaken for those of young women, who are naturally endowed with more HDL and seldom have heart attacks. Other studies have shown that shedding flab and following a diet rich in vegetables and vegetable oils, but low in red meat and dairy products-along with moderate drinking (a cocktail...
...story, Swan flew out to Coos Bay, where she sat in on classes and interviewed students along with Los Angeles Correspondent Edward Boyer, a former high school and college English and journalism teacher. Occasionally mistaken for a student s Swan found the teen-agers eager to talk. When she asked a class if three or four would like to join her for dinner, 13 newspaper staffers showed up. In Iowa City, Midwest Correspondent Anne Constable found that students and faculty at West High were so excited by the attention that they made TIME'S coverage the subject...