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...sometimes be on a high when they arrive at the workplace. In a 1985 study conducted by the 800-COCAINE counselors, 75% of those calling the hot line reported that they sometimes took coke while on the job, and 69% said they regularly worked under the influence of cocaine. One-fourth said they used cocaine at work every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Enemy Within | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...time for Pope John Paul II ("a noteworthy politician") to visit Cuba. Of this newfound cordiality, one Western diplomat in Havana observes, "Castro can afford to be magnanimous; religion today in Cuba is hardly a threat." In fact, Catholicism was never deeply rooted in the country. Today there are perhaps 80,000 active Catholics in a nation of some 10 million; about 41% of the population is counted as nominal Catholics, compared with 90% before the revolution. There are only 215 priests, one-fourth the pre-Castro figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Castro Looks At Christianity | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Library officials expect the facility to save the University money as well as books, since the cost of storing materials and retrieving them from HDI will be between one-fourth and one-third the cost of building new library space or storing elsewhere...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: Stacks Away | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...points, the Crimson--which has scored less than one-fourth of its points in the first half--has scored 80 of them in the final period...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: No More Wally Rutecki | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

While Hegeman and Lui have been up late talking to one-fourth of their class, many seniors haven't found any inconvenience by this misprint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Seniors' Phone Rings Off Hook | 10/23/1985 | See Source »

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