Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most radical departure is the propeller-driven craft that McDonnell Douglas has demonstrated for customers for the first time. The plane's engine, built by General Electric, contains jet turbines that drive two counter- rotating sets of stubby propeller blades. The new engine, to be put in use by 1992, is as powerful as a conventional jet, but is quieter and saves as much as 40% on fuel consumption...
...losses is not a form of insurance in the traditional sense. But states are beginning to enact laws to restrict the industry's questionable sales practices. And last May, Minnesota passed a law that required all auto insurance sold in the state to cover the owner for rental-car use...
...none at all for the country's black majority. When State President P.W. Botha opened this year's session in Cape Town last week, he addressed the members of all three houses in a new $16 million, 340-seat assembly hall. But the new auditorium may not get much use...
...controversial program, which could begin as early as this spring, has sparked vehement protests from law-enforcement agents, clergymen and politicians. Says the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem: "To distribute needles is to cooperate with evil. It is a step to legitimatizing heroin use...
...health officials argue, is deadlier. As many as 60% of the city's 200,000 addicts now carry the AIDS virus; only 35,000 are in drug- treatment programs. One result: growing numbers of women of childbearing age in the city are infected -- most of them through intravenous drug use or sexual contact with users. Says City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph: "The IV drug user is the gateway to the heterosexual population." That threat to public health persuaded Axelrod to permit an exception to a state law forbidding distribution or possession of needles without a prescription. His decision legally paved...