Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able, while using Ecstasy, to confront her memories of the assault. As Tamm explained to her psychiatrist, "Not only did MDMA enable me to recover my sanity, it enabled me to recover my soul." Therapists who endorse MDMA say that it does not produce the high of marijuana, the rush of cocaine or amphetamines (speed) or the hallucinations of LSD. Users, they say, develop a toler- ance for the chemical and, according to some therapists, do not appear to become addicted...
...cash drain by ordering the 102 thrifts to limit withdrawals to no more than $1,000 a month. Federal regulators moved quickly to help. The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, a U.S. agency that guarantees deposits up to $100,000, sent an army of auditors to Maryland to rush the process of bringing many of the thrifts under its coverage...
...sympathetic to the legitimate problems of time constraints. The administration's rush to solicit student members and reach a decision during exam period, at a time when student awareness of the issues is very low, cannot achieve the end it intends, namely, effective student participation Resolution of these issues should be postponed until next fall...
...time was 7 p.m. last Friday, the end of the rush hour, and New Delhi bus stations were filled with commuters headed back to the suburbs. At the interstate bus terminal near the old city's Kashmir Gate, passengers were boarding two long-distance buses bound for towns in the adjoining state of Uttar Pradesh. Suddenly explosions ripped through the vehicles, shattering windows and filling the station with acrid smoke. Panic broke out and passengers frantically scrambled away from the platforms. When rescuers arrived a few minutes later, they found seven people dead in the wreckage; 30 others were injured...
...Tuesday-evening rush hour in central Moscow dragged on interminably, a sure sign that something important was happening. As usual, the streets around the Krem- lin were blocked off, allowing black limousines to emerge from the Borovitsky Gate and speed away unhindered. Normally, that ritual ties up lesser motorists for only a few extra minutes; on this occasion, the tangle lasted much longer. The reason: the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, more than 300 members strong, had just concluded its first plenary session under the leadership of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, 54. The outcome of the meeting, held behind...