Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were at least 800 methadone-related deaths last year involving "street" methadone-a fact the authors ignored. Thus there may be increasing clamor for other ways of dealing with the nation's estimated half a million heroin addicts. Among them: a new crackdown on dealers and "cold-turkey" detoxification of addicts-a tough but effective tactic (TIME, June 19,1972) that practically wiped out heroin addiction in Japan...
...describe the type of person college breeds. "Who but soigne college graduates could summon the requisite poise to carry on an extemporaneous discussion of Marxian dialectics, gesticulate emphatically with a lit cigarette (preferably a Sobranie Black Russian), and punctuate his remarks with a polite sip from his drink (Wild Turkey on the rocks or some Pernod)?" they...
...RESULT of the current recession, many migrants have been expelled from western Europe, taking their unemployment back home with them to the decaying peasant villages of Turkey, Yugoslavia, and North Africa, to the abandoned farmlands of Iberia and southern Italy. But ten million foreign workers still remain in western Europe. If the experience of previous recessions is any guide, the rest will soon return, because they have become essential to economic growth. The demand for migratory workers does not stem from a simple labor shortage in the western European economy. In most countries which have experienced large scale immigration, unemployment...
...Cliffe lightweight coach Peter Huntsman explains that during the early winter months newcomers will often overdose from too much crew and eventually quit cold turkey. "Our greatest attrition is in January when people who weren't that serious in the fall realize they aren't in competition. We try to increase the workload in February and keep it a pretty intense situation...
Dani Rodrik '79 went to the American School in Istanbul, Turkey. His college advisor there was a Harvard graduate. According to Rodrik, Harvard knows his school well and understands that "standards are high...