Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially in professional sports. After the New England Patriots suffered the most humiliating Super Bowl defeat (46-10) in history last January, the team admitted that several of its key players had been using illegal drugs during the season. Coach Raymond Berry has asked all players to submit to random drug testing. Two weeks ago, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth suspended seven players for one year without pay for using and distributing drugs. To be reinstated, the players must give 10% of their 1986 salaries to drug-rehabilitation programs, contribute 100 hours of community service in each of the next...
...largest employer to test all personnel is the U.S. military. Alarmed by rampant drug use among men and women in uniform, the Pentagon began widespread random testing in 1982, starting with the Army. At first, the program was developed so fast and handled so sloppily that it gave drug testing a bad name. Hundreds of soldiers claimed that they were falsely accused of being drug users because of inaccurate results...
...convert into a reverie of distant innocence and immediate longing. The album's standout is the title track, written by Don, a song of romantic loss and spiritual devastation that has at least a decade's worth of pain packed tight beneath its terse lyrics. Don, who uses the Random House Dictionary and a thesaurus when he writes, expresses grateful surprise when he is complimented on the song but agrees, after a while, "I guess that's life experience I'm writing from now. Born Yesterday took me three to four years to write." "That song," says his brother, "points...
...audience of about 35 students listened to McInerney recite episodes of random violence, drug abuse, drunkeness and social alienation that make up his best selling first novel Bright Lights, Big City...
...Random House; 399 pages...