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...when they met is not made clear. But according to the document, the elders carefully laid out a perverse plan: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration of gold in the hands of the Jews." Once launched, the Protocols were to prove as virulent as they were false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fakes That Have Skewed History | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...with image of poison and the grave, lightness goes out, suddenly stilled, for both the living and the dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sampling the Product | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...foolish thing that ever happened here." Some returning employees already feel that way. Said Caterpillar Worker Steve Stannard last week: "The company starved us out. A lot of us aren't going to forget that. It's like a bad dream, and it's going to poison labor relations for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cat Purrs | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...runners and baggers. There are even bouncers who check the needle marks on customers' arms as though they were membership cards. Some of Alphabet Town's 15 or so clubs have their own house brands of drugs, like "Lucky Seven" cocaine or such standard heroin varieties as "Poison" and "Colt .45." Employees work strict business hours: there are three eight-hour shifts a day. Each club can gross upwards of $100,000 daily; many offer good employee benefits. In January, one club closed for two weeks to take its entire staff of 30 on a paid vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...constantly crowded with people waiting to score: blacks, Hispanics and middle-class whites. Clean-cut young men in tweed jackets and attractive young women in designer jeans listen intently to the dealers' pitches. "Get your Lucky Seven here-best dope in town." "Colt .45 is Jesus bread." "Poison is mellow today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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