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...addictive problems of other psychoactive drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administration says MDMA, or Ecstasy as it is known on the street, is an un- controlled and rapidly spreading recreational drug that can cause psychosis and possibly brain damage. Last week the DEA banned Ecstasy by labeling it with a one-year emergency Schedule I controlled-substance classification. That listing is reserved for drugs, like heroin and LSD, which have a high potential for abuse...
Many firms now penalize or fire those who drink on the job, and a few even ban drinking at company picnics. A provision in the new contract between Anheuser-Busch and the Teamsters and other unions is gradually eliminating beer breaks and free lunchtime brew over a one-year "transition" period. Instead, 9,000 employees will be given free six-packs to take home or may choose additional benefits, like more health insurance. Says Company Spokesman James Morice: "Basically, it was a matter of reflecting contemporary concerns...
...composition of the cuts is not quite what Reagan had suggested. The President accepted a one-year freeze on Social Security benefits, which otherwise would go up 4% within the next year as an adjustment for inflation. That exposed him to bitter charges that he was violating a 1984 campaign pledge never to approve any cut in benefits. The President rather lamely replied at his farewell-to-Europe press conference in Lisbon that he had never intended to guarantee increases, but merely to protect the aged against reductions...
...report on the the matter, the GAO said the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circumvented the law in January by directing the NIH--the largest source of Harvard's research funding--to finally only 5000 of the 5500 renewable one-year grants for which Congress had appropriated Fiscal Year 1986 money...
...Undaunted, he sold and sold and sold. During the next nine years, he hustled up the regional sales ranks. Finally, weeks after his marriage in 1956, Iacocca got called back to headquarters as a marketing manager under the chief "whiz kid," Ford Vice President Robert McNamara. Iacocca officially indulged his ^ love of the punchy phrase. Earlier that year he had devised a $56-a-month credit plan for Ford buyers ("$56 for '56"); later he was intent on the Mustang's exceeding the Falcon's all-time one-year auto sales record of 417,000 ("417 by 4/17"); still later...