Word: users
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, Johnson proposed to raise some $240 million in new revenues by hiking certain "user" taxes-including an additional 2?-per-gallon levy on commercial aviation gasoline and a new 2% tax on air freight. But above all, the President is counting on increased spending, both private and governmental, to keep the economy in high gear and thus generate increases in taxable personal income and corporate profits...
...drugs are used for a short period of time, the doctor noted, they have no serious physical affects. They prevent sleepiness by stimulating the central nervous system and do permanent damage only to the chronic user...
...chronic user, however, is not the one who suffers during exam period, the physician noted. He said that pep pills act differently on each individual, and that the pill which keeps one student alert may make another go blank completely during an exam. He added that this makes the drugs especially dangerous to the student who has never taken them and decides to give them a "one-shot trial...
...Multigraph's Bruning Division showed off two electrostatic models that it claims can produce copies at half the cost and twice the speed of Xerox machines but that require special paper. American Photocopy demonstrated its new "Dial-A-Copy," which has a telephone-like dial on which the user can order from one to ten copies, and SCM (Smith Corona-Marchant) showed its similar, dial-operated Model 44. 3M displayed six specialized machines that produce by means of heat and light sensitivity; one turns out single copies on heat-sensitive paper for about 310, and another produces 40 copies...
...over the world to be out, and I have nothing to live for but this shot of dope," says one addict. But the habit is costly: $1 for a marijuana "reefer," $3 for a "bag" (a single grain of heroin), $5 for a "deck" (three grains). A heavy user may need up to $75 a day, and that often means mugging people and sometimes killing them for the wherewithal...