Word: users
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confrontation escalated between the U.S. and Panama, and thousands of police gathered for the funeral of a New York City officer assassinated by a drug gang, Nancy Reagan took a tougher line. "Drugs are tearing our communities apart," insisted the First Lady. "If you are a casual drug user, you are an accomplice to murder...
Harvard University Library Director SidneyVerba lauded Dowler for his efforts to improveaccessibility at Houghton. "Larry's leadership hasresulted in significant improvements in the areaof user access," said the director in a pressrelease...
...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 the way for a pilot program...
...though, what most distinguishes Tokyo Disneyland from its American forebears is its user-friendly audience. There are no screeching infants along its spotless walkways and no teenagers on the make. At closing time, after soft neon and colored lights have turned the place into a lovely fairyland, there is no frantic rush for the gates. Elegant secretaries and college boys in shirts bearing the vaguely anarchic slogan CIVIL RIGHT FREAK YOU KNOW UNIVERSITY EDUCATION stand in orderly lines until sweetly smiling cheerleaders lead the crowd forward in regimented squads...
...Mostly I leave New Yorkers because I hate to throw them away," said another Red Line user, adding that she did not use the library because "other people might not have anything to read, while I always have New Yorkers...