Word: powdering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, a science primer for those of you not up to speed on your pharmaceuticals. Cocaine and crack are two forms of the same drug. Crack is simply powder cocaine mixed with baking soda and water and heated. Therefore, anyone who possesses cocaine has the capability to turn it into crack. Next, the economics. Powder cocaine is usually sold in gram packages for between $65 and $100. Rocks of crack come in smaller, more affordable packages that cost $5 to $20. Crack is predominantly a drug of the inner city; cocaine is more prevalent among the middle and upper classes...
...equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program is not an acceptable substitute: "For women to be leaders of men, they can't learn such skills in the absence of men on the powder-puff campus of Converse." TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson concurs, saying "I don't think it can be separate but equal. Generally, freedom of association should allow you to choose with whom you associate. But in this case taxpayer dollars are involved, and it makes it more problematic...
...much of his work, and in the end about 500 pieces have survived, including drawings-not much for a man who began to paint in the early 1920s. And since he was a very uneven artist, their quality varies widely. He cared absolutely nothing for permanence; he used cheap powder colors on cardboard most of the time, thus bequeathing a nightmare to museum conservators. Only the actual process of painting, of resolving the image and getting it to stand alone in its own space, mattered to him, and after that was done he would often leave the picture...
...quarters, and I saw that the clothes she had put in the dryer weren't wet," Liu recalls, "So I said, 'Uh...don't you have to wash your clothes before you dry them?' and she was kind of embarrassed when she had to clean out all this detergent powder from the dryer...
...intense investigation coordinated by the FBI over five states, which included the arrest this month of a fugitive who had been on the run since September 1993. The so-called Eight Trey Gangster Crips network is estimated to have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according to the FBI, is only one of perhaps a hundred more in operation. They emanate from Los Angeles' increasingly expansionist gangland. Says FBI special agent-in- charge Charley Parsons in Los Angeles: ``The gangs are literally franchising...