Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leading a crackdown on corruption, Alam is currently investigating eight former government ministers and prosecuting a dozen ex-army generals. A nationwide drive against tax dodgers has produced remarkable results; in one province alone, collections increased 1,300%. Almost 5,000 opium parlors have been shut down. Thanks to record oil revenues of nearly $400 million this year and massive U.S. aid ($157 million in 1962), the national budget is balanced and the treasury even boasts a small surplus. Fortnight ago, the government signed a trade agreement with the Common Market, lowering European tariffs on Iranian carpets, caviar and various...
Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau took to opium, later kicked the habit and led a campaign against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his books (Les Parents Terribles), plays (The Infernal Machine), and films (Beauty and the Beast) as immoral and unhealthy...
...week Lacerda told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times that he expected total collapse before long. "I don't think this thing will go to the end of the year," he said, and warned that further U.S. aid "would be like trying to sell roses in an opium...
...Opium Smokers. While certification rules distort college curriculums, the ultimate irony is that half-educated teachers are later thrown into fields not their own. This is how most states "solve" the teacher shortage. Conant "contemplates with horror" the fact that 34% of all seventh-and eighth-grade mathematics classes are taught by teachers whose college training covered less than two elementary courses in the subject. Concludes Conant: "The policy of certification based on the completion of state-specified course requirements is bankrupt...
...giving teachers a raise every time they pass a course after hours-any course, including "Mickey Mouse" guts like driver education. "I just love taking courses," one teacher told Conant. "I could keep on taking courses all my life." Says Conant: "I felt as if I were talking to opium smokers...