Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Groups of four or more students come to the Harvard-affiliated hospital once a week for eight hours to test different types of drugs. The three pills each take range in strength from a placebo--which is a simple sugar pill--to a maximum dosage, which, says Orzack, is "still within the limits each subject has taken recreationally...
Family ties help open doors. Tommy Boggs' mother Lindy is a Congresswoman from Louisiana; his father, the late Hale Boggs, was House majority leader. Other congressional progeny who as lobbyists have traded on their names for various interests: Speaker Tip O'Neill's son Kip (sugar, beer, cruise ships); Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole's daughter Robin (Century 21 real estate); Senator Paul Laxalt's daughter Michelle (oil, Wall Street, Hollywood); and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jamie Whitten's son Jamie Jr. (steel, barges, cork...
...trade clauses were $ stripped away as the bill made its way through a Congress more intent on protecting special interests in the U.S. than on helping the Caribbean. Last year, Caribbean exports to the U.S. dropped by 23%, a decline due in large part to a poor market in sugar, bauxite and cocoa. After a 90-min. parley with leaders of nine Caribbean nations last week on Grenada, Reagan promised to push a number of new economic initiatives...
...involved the University of Georgia and Jan H. Kemp, an assistant professor in the school's remedial-studies program. More than four years ago Kemp, then 32, complained that nine football players, all with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star jocks with fourth-string grades, she was demoted and then fired by the university in 1983. In deep despair, she twice attempted suicide...
...ironic part of it all is that the Office for the Arts, which granted the sugar-coated artistes money for their magnum opus, is headed by Myra Mayman, the master of Cabot House. One would think that as master of a Quad House, she would have been perhaps a little more sensitive to Quad residents who understandably are peeved by the now regrettable condition of the Quad. Such "art" has made the Quad into one giant sno-cone practically useless to those who do not desire to be sticky and cherry flavored...