Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocaine extremists seeking peak pleasure at any cost, "free-basing" is the ultimate high. The smoking technique was rare until 1979, when head shops began mass-marketing $15 free-base extraction kits. Although not practiced by most cocaine users, free-basing is disturbingly popular, especially in California. Its toll is high: the risk of drug dependence is vastly greater than with snorting, and no less than with injecting. As cocaine is just one distilled component of the coca leaf, cocaine free-base comes from carrying the refining process one ill-advised step further: the active drug is "freed" from...
Halfway up this grim parapet of fate is a scooped-out ledge, a pocket of tenuous survival, where two men lie panting for breath. Taylor (Jeffrey DeMunn) and Harold (Jay Patterson) have reached the summit of K2. At 28,250 ft., this Himalayan peak is the second highest mountain in the world, topped only by Everest. On the way down, Harold lost his footing and suffered a critical leg wound. Only Taylor can descend for help. He is short 120 ft. of much needed rope, having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times...
Customers of Bank of America have reason to feel a bit perplexed these days. Giant companies can now borrow from the San Francisco-based lender at a prime rate of 10½%, down from a peak of 21½% at the end of 1980. But the little guy who may need a few thousand dollars for a spring vacation or a home computer is getting no such break from the biggest U.S. bank. He must pay 19% for an unsecured personal loan, off somewhat from last fall's high of 25% but still a towering rate. Similar chasms between...
Only five hours before a midnight deadline last week, Eastern Air Lines avoided a potentially ruinous strike that would have grounded many of its flights just as the peak Easter season was getting under way. But the cost was enormous. Eastern had offered members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents 13,500 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground personnel at the airline, a 25% raise spread over two years, starting with a 6% hike in April. The union rejected that package. Instead it wound up with a 32% raise by 1984, including an immediate...
...singularly lethal ailment. The survival rate after two years of AIDS: less than 20%. Last week, at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan, 300 doctors gathered to exchange notes on the phenomenon. The bad news: "We are at the horizon of a new epidemic, rather than at the peak," says Dr. James Curran, director of the AIDS task force at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Half the known cases of AIDS have been diagnosed in the past six months, and the number of new cases has been doubling every eight to twelve months. Says Curran...