Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department of public health: "There are millions of chemicals that people can abuse. If people want to run around poisoning themselves, there is very little regulating officials can do." Besides, officials argue, the drug's own adverse effects act as a deterrent to chronic abuse. Recalls one Manhattan user: "It was the most terrifying experience of my life. After I sniffed it, I felt my heart was popping out of my chest. I had a headache for a long while after. I'll never touch it again...
World sugar prices have plummeted from 65? per Ib. in 1974 to 7? today. That is good news for consumers, particularly for the country's biggest user, Coca-Cola Co. Each 1? drop in sugar prices saves Coke $20 million a year. But the tumbling prices are bad news for domestic growers of sugar cane and sugar beets, who contend they need a price of 17? per Ib. to meet their production costs...
Many of the freebies or subsidies that the city had given in past years will be stopped. At the community center, the biggest attraction in town, nominal fees for such things as jewelry making and yoga classes, pinball and poolrooms will be increased so that the users will pay the freight. "Dancercise" courses that used to cost $10, for example, will now cost $25. The meeting room in the Spanish-style community center will no longer be offered gratis. Senior citizens who hold weekly gatherings there are angry that they will have to rent the room...
...professional associates in Foggy Bottom. He is their hero. He has given veteran State Department officials a revitalized feeling of usefulness, and they like his systematic, orderly approach to decisions. Says Matthew Nimetz, the Department counselor and a former law partner of Vance's: "He is the most efficient user of time I've ever known." Observes Hamilton Jordan: "He runs the State Department as well...
...next day Bergland warned Agricultural Committee Chairmen Thomas Foley in the House and Herman Talmadge in the Senate that the President would veto the farm bill if a joint conference committee did not drop the amendment. Three days before Bergland passed along the veto threat, the leading sugar-user spokesman, Coca-Cola's chief purchaser, John Mount, remarked to a group of colleagues while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto...