Word: oed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that prevail in a courtroom: it is up to the accused to prove their innocence. "We have a rule in American jurisprudence that the penalty fits the crime," says Colleen O'Connor of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Confiscation of millions of dollars in property for a joint doesn...
This communications Stone Age disconnected more than Hinsdale. More than half a million other suburban residents could not make long-distance calls, or even ring up nearby Chicago. O'Hare Airport endured two days of flight delays when controllers lost contact with the air-traffic control center in Aurora, Ill. From posh Oak Brook, where companies like McDonald's have their headquarters, to the high-tech corridor along the East-West Tollway, circuits were jammed for days...
...talking about something that destroys people's lives . . . to the point that they're no longer normal human beings." Reagan drew an angry picture of future decadence: "You drive down the highway, and you look up, and there's a billboard, and it doesn't say EAT JELL-O; it says TRY COCAINE. And your papers and your magazines ((would be)) full of attractive ads saying OH, HAVE A BALL, GET STONED ON COCAINE, YOU'LL NEVER TRY ANYTHING ELSE." Senator D'Amato earlier sardonically suggested some snappier slogans: "The weekend belongs to heroin," for example, or "This crack...
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