Word: use
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...most part they are black and live in the decayed hearts of major cities. But the Underclass is defined less by income than by behavior. Members are prisoners of a ghetto pathology, the denizens of a self- perpetuating culture marked by teenage pregnancy, fatherless households, chronic unemployment, crime, drug use and long-term dependence on welfare...
Bush advocates a wider use of Head Start, a program he supported when he was a Congressman. He has also talked about child care and has proposed a $2.2 billion package that would provide low-income families with a $1,000-per-child tax credit. Such a tax credit, however, can hardly accomplish what it is designed to do: allow a mother to pay for day care or permit her to stay home with her children. Bush recently underwent a campaign conversion and said he would support raising the minimum wage (as long as it was coupled with a subminimum...
...country's best-known and most sought-after designers, specializing in a kind of overembellished chic. A New Yorker review of a 1972 collection nailed him for excesses of design that were "indulging fancifully in styles that women have never dreamed of simply because they have no earthly use for them...
Around the world, Johnson's disqualification suddenly riveted public attention on the decades-old problem of performance-enhancing drug use with an altogether new intensity. By week's end the total of ten drug-related disqualifications in Seoul was close to the 1984 figure. But many thought: If this world-record holder would risk detection, everyone must be doing it. Spectators felt deceived and non-using athletes felt gypped. Overnight the Olympics became clouded, suspected of being an unholy chemistry competition rather than the glorious alchemy of will, talent and training that is its ideal...
...image unjustly diminished too many great performances. But fears about a widespread drug problem are entirely justified: the use of performance- enhancing agents is far more common than the number of disqualifications would imply. Dr. Robert Voy, chief medical officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee, reports that no-penalty testing in 1983-84 found that 20% to 50% of U.S. athletes were doping. Current formal testing in the U.S. turns up positives at a rate of 2% to 3%. Athletes' understanding of how to beat the tests by using either extra drugs that mask the performance-enhancing ones...