Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marc, 35, began gambling in high school, where he blew a $1,000 savings account his parents had set up for him. In college he gambled away the receipts of a candy store that he managed; in law school he looted his wife's $4,000 savings account. Says Marc: "I would lie awake at night and relive every race, every game, to figure out where I miscalculated." He never did figure it out; by 1985 he had run up debts of $200,000 and joined Gamblers Anonymous. Family and friends thought he had kicked his habit, but in fact...
...uses to test new drugs. Under pressure from AIDS activists, the Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it would allow wider use of two experimental drugs before rigorous clinical trials have conclusively established the value of these medications. AIDS patients hailed the decision, but it set precedents that could weaken the scientific safeguards that have long protected the desperately ill from quack remedies...
...Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they should know and be able...
Many of the tribal blockades have been set up on the Limbang road, which is one of the main logging arteries in Sarawak. Construction of the road during the mid-1980s was partly financed with a 200 million yen ($842,000) low- interest loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency ostensibly to benefit the very people who are today fighting the logging traffic. Since JICA is not supposed to give funds to support Japanese commercial ventures abroad, the road has provided ammunition for those who argue that increased foreign aid by the Japanese will only further jeopardize the global environment...
...thing is clear, though: the intensity, scope and expense of the Government's reaction to Bracy's March 1987 statement would have been far different if the stage had not been set by a series of interagency disputes about security in Moscow...