Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consumers are plunging nose first into coke just when medical studies are reporting conclusions that should scare off new users and old. Until recently, when speaking of cocaine dependence, no one dared call it addiction: cocaine's withdrawal symptoms are not physically wrenching, as with heroin and alcohol. Nonetheless, says Dr. David Smith, director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, "addiction is compulsion, loss of control and continued use in spite of the consequences. Cocaine is very addicting." What is more, and a fact many social snorters refuse to believe, coke can kill its users...
...left to the students, because they will ultimately be the ones who will have to do the job. As a student I appreciates Epps' concern for our safety, but caring as he is, he is only limiting students' opportunities in an era of high tuition costs and increasingly scare high paying summer jobs...
...that it is an unwelcome attempt to link military considerations to financial aid which should be "based solely on need." What is not well known is that military considerations created this program. The National Defense Student Loan Program, as it was intially called, originated in the post-Sputnik scare of the late 1950's and early 1960's. The government established the program under the premise that the country would benefit economically and militarily if more Americans received a college education. Universities gleefully accepted these funds that greatly facilitated an expansion in their student enrollments. It would be unconscionable...
...maker of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson had the most to gain by renewing consumers' trust. Before the murders, Tylenol had 37% of the $1.2 billion painkiller market; that share slipped to 7% during the scare, but has now rebounded to 24%. Tylenol's new wrapping offers triple protection: 1) the outer box is glued shut; 2) the cap and neck of the bottle inside the box are encased in a form-fitting shrink seal; and 3) an airtight foil seal covers the opening underneath. Like some other manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson says it has not raised prices to cover...
Though Bercovich has never lived in Boston, his arrival at Harvard in the fall will in a strange way be kind of a homecoming. His "idealistic" mother, he said, named him after Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were executed for treason in Boston during the "red scare" of the 1920s. "In a way," Bercovich chuckled, "I'll be returning to the scene of the crime...