Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When methadone was first introduced 24 years ago, it was hailed as a magic bullet aimed at the heart of heroin addiction. A neat, clean medical solution to a social problem. It has proved to be something less than that. Methadone is a treatment, not a cure, for addiction, and an imperfect one at that. But for some 100,000 of the country's half-million heroin addicts, it offers an alternative to shooting up as well as the possibility of a productive life...
...very often take up another. A federal study released in August found that as many as 47% of patients at 15 methadone clinics across the country continued to use heroin or other opiates, and up to 40% used nonopiate drugs, usually cocaine. So scientists find themselves aiming their magic bullet at a moving target. "We're constantly having to treat new disease," said Marvin Snyder, director of NIDA's medications- development program. "In five years, the problem may not be cocaine, but some drug we haven't even heard...
After an assassin's bullet struck former White House Press Secretary James Brady in the 1981 attack on President Reagan and left him partly paralyzed, his wife Sarah became a leading advocate of gun control. Until last week, Brady had never used his plight to dramatize the issue. Finally, fed up with Congress's failure to act on even modest gun-control measures, Brady came before a Senate committee in his wheelchair to deliver a blunt plea. Congress, he said, was "gutless" for failing to pass the Brady amendment, which would require a seven-day waiting period so that police...
...Crimson had to endure a scare before recording the win. Minutes into the third period, Dartmouth defender Nate Dudley drilled a slapshot at Roy. The sophomore netminder got a stick on the bullet, but the puck dribbled over the line to cut Harvard's lead to two goals...
...Martin on Thursday. He was lying on the lawn behind his residence, clad in a familiar dark blue T shirt that seemed to be one of only three he owned. Most of his gentle, bearded face had been torn away by an M-16 bullet. Next to him was Father Segundo Montes, director of the University of Central America's human rights project, and a few feet away sprawled the school's rector, Father Ignacio Ellacuria. The priests' cook, Elba Julia Ramos, lay nearby, her brown dress curled around her waist...