Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduce ethical considerations into the University's investment policy--following the lines laid out by John T. Simon '50, a former president of this newspaper and now professor of law at Yale, in his book The Ethical Investor. But the effort, although a noble beginning, clearly lacks direction and strength, because it is rooted in a weak sense of the purpose of ethics...
...farmers of Guajira do not like visits from inquisitive reporters or other strangers. They have good reason. For the grassy harvest ripening in the sun is marijuana, a luxurious marijuana of heady strength known as Santa Marta Gold. Most of it is destined for the U.S., where the 42 million Americans who have tried pot have made smoking it the most widely accepted illegal indulgence since drinking during Prohibition. They now consume about 130,000 lbs. per day, quadruple the 1974 consumption, and they spend $25 billion per year on their pleasure. Mexico provided most of the best marijuana until...
...heavy use. To date, most results have been based on studies of laboratory animals or small groups of healthy young men. Thus little is known about marijuana's effects on the elderly, on pregnant women, and on developing youngsters, an area of particular concern. In addition, the greater strength of the marijuana now being imported from Colombia adds a new dimension to the question...
About the only findings so far that have widespread support are the drug's effects on the heart and the lungs. Marijuana accelerates the rate at which the heart contracts and may temporarily weaken the strength of the contractions, making it potentially dangerous for people with certain cardiac conditions. Smoking pot irritates the lungs and throat and can result in "joint cough." Long-term use may impair the lungs. Other tentative findings...
This was typical of a cautious reportorial consensus until everything began to give way; it was less "pro-Shah" than an attempt to assess presumed elements of strength in a fluid situation. Journalism was never guilty of the reckless effusiveness of Jimmy Carter's 1978 New Year's toast to the Shah's "island of stability." But it also resisted, says the Wall Street Journal's Bartley, those Iranian exiles who wanted the press to "report that the only trouble in Iran is the Shah, and if we only toppled him everything would be peachy...