Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charity organizations working with us. Everybody is just pounding the kids all day long." Yet the older drug dealers are winning the war for the hearts and minds of too many children. When impoverished youngsters see $100 bills waved under their noses, it is hard for them to turn away. Says Dr. Robert Millman, director of drug-and-alcohol-ab use services at New York Hospital: "Just saying no doesn't cut it. The poor ask, 'What can we just...
...President Dukakis should do: launch viable, cost-effective initiatives to renew the Government's commitment to jobs and education. If nothing further is done, more children will be seduced by the lucrative drug business. More young crack dealers will become crack addicts and burn out before they turn 20. More will wind up as fatalities of the drug...
...second-round duel with Chirac got under way, Mitterrand's task was still daunting. He had to push Chirac as far toward Le Pen as possible in the hope that many of Barre's 5 million center-right supporters would turn to the Socialist but moderate-sounding President. The pollsters carefully spelled out the arithmetic of Mitterrand's task. From the environmentalist, Communist and fringe Marxist parties, they calculated, Mitterrand could expect to add 13.5 percentage points to his first-round score. Total...
...three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster bed. "He was chronically, almost neurotically, acquisitive," writes Biographer David Bourdon in the auction catalog. "He was forever searching for that mythical five-dollar find that would turn out to be worth $1 million...
Home is Mexico, the reason why the single-story trading post was built here, on high ground a respectful 200 yards from the Rio Grande in the Big Bend National Park area of Texas, sometime around the turn of the century. The border is still the major reason for the trading post's existence. There are no U.S. or Mexican customs and immigration stations within 50 miles, and tradition has allowed for free movement across the border. "Occasionally the border patrol will cruise by," remarks Christine Gutierrez, who works at the trading post but lives across the river. "They seldom...