Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug abuse is not just a by-product of life in the fast lane. Drugs are also used by multitudes of blue-collar workers to relieve the deadening boredom of menial jobs. Says Miriam Ingebritson, clinical director for a St. Louis-based consulting firm that provides drug-therapy services for IBM, the Cincinnati Reds and the City of St. Louis: "Frequently we find that it is not the exhilarating high that people are looking for, but rather to escape from tedium...
...growth of the smuggling business at other border crossings and landing strips from San Diego to Portland, Me. Smugglers' jets equipped with long-range fuel tanks now bypass Florida's notorious narcs and land instead in South Carolina, Tennessee or even New York's Long Island, which puts the product only a few miles from Manhattan's penthouses and discos. The influx has prompted New York Governor Mario Cuomo to assign 200 more officers to drug-enforcement squads...
...Nicaragua is not a communist country," said Martinez, who has been Minister of Foreign Trade since the 1979 establishment of the Sandinista government, citing the fact that the private sector accounts for 73 percent of the country's gross economic product...
...Independent, the Playboy ad was about equally concerned with plugging the forthcoming college issue as with announcing "help wanted." This puts The Independent in the business of helping Playboy sell its product. Is this either necessary or desirable? Moreover, the size of the ad itself--a good half page--is an important statement about power...
There is nothing wrong with sex, sexuality, sensuality or erotica. But there is something wrong with asking a group of people to freely enter into an contract to advertise what they think is a degrading product. We do not fool ourselves that we are keeping anyone from going to see Chan; we are simply fighting where we can, making statements where we can about a very serious issue...