Word: across
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...therapy fails to address the underlying psychological and social causes of drug abuse. Even if an addict is weaned from one drug, they say, he will 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...
...Bush who produced the printed sheet of specifics almost as soon as he and Gorbachev sat down in the book-lined cardroom of the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky. Putting before him 112 typed pages of items, the President started out nervously, his voice tight. Gorbachev, sitting across from him, listened intently. When Bush finished speaking, nearly one hour later, he had set out what one White House official called "a lot of meat...
Bush's earnest presentation of his overall proposals had a weight to it that the Soviets acknowledged. Said an American aide who was at the table: "The President wanted to get the message across that he didn't just support perestroika; he wanted to back up his support." Gorbachev listened closely, nodding vigorously at times. His reply to the President's offers was warm, though mostly general. "Gorbachev completely caught the spirit," said a U.S. official. "There was nothing from which he dissented...
...approved the plan, the SPD began feeling its politics again and abstained from the voting. Kohl also seized the high ground from the far-right Republican Party, which has issued absurd calls for complete German reunification to 1937's borders, which now include parts of Poland. Kohl reassured Germans across much of the political spectrum as well as Germany watchers around the world by emphasizing the term confederation. With its explicit echoes of the Zollverein, the customs union of German states that existed during the 19th century before Bismarck's unification of the nation, the word summoned an image...
...many of the 2146 students at Rindge and Latin, however, Harvard remains not much more than a next-door neighbor--and an unfriendly one at that. Harvard may be just across the street from Rindge and Latin, but as one official there says, "To some students it is a million miles away...