Word: potted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hold pay raises of high executives to 5% or less this year. General Motors and Time Inc. joined the list. So did A T & T, after its chairman, John deButts, got a wheedling phone call from Bob Strauss, who typically asks business leaders, "What can you put in the pot?" Ford, R.C.A., Westinghouse and some other companies were studying the idea. Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee voted to deny scheduled pay increases this year to some 16,000 federal executives earning more than...
Paraquat and Pot...
...widespread contaminated marijuana is in Cambridge. The City of Cambridge has decided to appeal directly to the governor, and Dukakis should follow the lead of California by permitting the program to begin immediately. The findings of the Palo Alto, Cal. laboratory PharmChem--that 32 per cent of over 4000 pot samples tested showed signs of paraquat poisoning--should eliminate all doubts as to the legitimacy of and the need for the operation of such a program in Massachusetts...
...herbicide spraying program pending the publication of the environmental impact statement; we hope the federal courts will rule in NORML's favor. In the meantime, the paraquat problem is very much with us, and an end to the spraying program coupled with the launching of the city's pot testing project will represent two important steps towards dealing with this tax-dollar funded health threat...
That was enough to trigger a widespread panic. Worried marijuana smokers in Urbana, Ill., told a drug counselor that several of them had vomited and passed out after smoking pot. G.D. Searle Laboratories in Skokie, Ill., reported that 39 out of 40 marijuana samples tested had traces of paraquat. "People are running scared," says Dr. Vernon Patch, a Boston drug-abuse expert. "A situation exists which borders on hysteria," agrees the deputy director of the Illinois dangerous-drugs commission, Daniel Behnke...