Word: stay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This surging popularity has provided the owners with a new weapon in their already bristling arsenal: blackmail. First, a "struggling" team announces that it's home city no longer provides the support it needs to stay in town. Then it begins to court the many hungering municipalities which lack franchises of their own and are willing to promise the moon for a prospective pro team...
Progress in the actual treatment of alcoholism is disappointing. Most facilities still rely on basic therapies worked out in the 1940s. Though some centers advertise grossly exaggerated success rates of 70% after four years, the best estimates are that only 12% to 25% of patients manage to stay on the wagon for three years. Alcoholics Anonymous, the tremendously popular association of an estimated 1 million recovering alcoholics, remains the single biggest source of support for chronic drinkers. But its record is hard to assess because of members' anonymity. Even so, only 15% to 20% of alcoholics get any treatment...
...thoughts and feelings about myself to oblivion. Psychologically, I was undoubtedly depressed when I began to overcome my well-founded but ill-understood fears about alcohol: my father died when I was a sophomore. For whatever reason, I spent the better part of two decades trying to stay emotionally and physically numb...
...years, savvy smugglers, complicit businessmen and well-heeled Soviet officials managed to stay out of sight as they ferried America's technological secrets from West to East. No longer. A string of scandals, beginning with last spring's Toshiba affair, has pushed the issue of high-tech banditry squarely into the spotlight. The stories, many of which lack the happy ending supplied by Corporal Fudge, have strengthened the resolve of U.S. officials to track down and punish those who traffic in the nation's secrets. Earlier this month Commerce Secretary William Verity announced that officials from the NATO allies...
What is the holiday season's most chilling refrain? "My mother called; she says she can stay two weeks"? "Here's a letter from your daughter; she's engaged and she's bringing her fiance home so we can meet him"? "He didn't say the whole fraternity; just the guys from his floor, and it's only for a weekend"? Strong candidates. But for terror at its primal level, there is nothing quite like "There's a blizzard in Chicago; they've just closed O'Hare...