Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a year ago, federal authorities had reason to believe that the lethal heroin traffic was at last slowing. Deaths related to heroin had fallen significantly in 1973. Prices on the average were up -a sure sign of scarcity-and on the East Coast particularly "white" heroin made from the Turkish opium poppy was in short supply. Government officials were confident that the number of users was declining nationwide...
...details to be ironed out during the week, as Harvard assured one of the member unions in writing of some minor details about work shifts, but William N. Mullins, manager of employee relations, and John J. Mark, the union's president, are now ready to sit down, smile, and sign the new pact...
...been compared with Laing in an interesting way; one of his great defenders in Japan said that "his attitude is similar to R.D. Laing's--that neurosis is not a disease, but a sign of intelligence being used." Perhaps, then, Abe has written an intelligent novel...
Money became a factor--the actors had to sign contracts, the musicians' union forced Prince to hire 25 musicians when he only needed 18, so seven of them get paid for sitting in the basement. The grandiose lobby of the theater didn't fit the mood of the play, so Prince sprinkled sawdust on the marble floor and set up hot-dog-and-beer stands. And the Broadway audience gave the play a hostile reception, complaining about having to sit on bleachers and having their view obstructed by scenery--both deliberate and artistic innovations. Prince complains bitterly that...
...course, the political and economic shocks of the 1970s have jarred the confidence of U.S. citizens to a degree that is still unknown. The extent of gold buying in the months ahead could well be a sign-and a measure-of how much Americans still believe in their Government, their institutions and themselves...