Officials said PCP — also known in its crystalline form as angel dust — was a scourge decades ago, when its use was linked to erratic behavior and violence on the city's streets.
The Italian president is a largely ceremonial figure, but he wields important powers at times of political instability, a frequent scourge in Italy, when he can dissolve parliament, call elections and pick prime ministers.
As commissioner for more than five years, from 1983 to 1989, he commanded the force at time when the scourge of crack ravaged the streets.
There, he served as chief art critic and often as a traditionalist scourge during an era when art movements fractured into unrecognizability.
THE sweater-vested theocrat Rick Santorum was in the midst of a customary jeremiad against the evils of "Obamacare" and the scourge of government regulations when I heard him utter something positively extraordinary: Remember him?
With a Hemingwayesque build and the distinctively rounded vowels of his native Australia, Mr. Hughes became as familiar a presence on television as he was in print, over three decades for Time magazine, where he was chief art critic and often a traditionalist scourge during an era when art movements fractured into unrecognizability.
In fact, many Colombians will tell you that the savage narco wars between Cali and Medellín cartels of the 80s and 90s were a far greater scourge on their lives, when brutal massacres and car bombings ripped the hearts out of Colombia's major cities.
Today, Kagame will tell you that the No. 1 threat to the country is not ethnic extremism or violence but the underlying scourge of poverty, and when I reminded him of that World Bank assessment he said, "The same people who were saying that Rwanda is not viable economically, they are the same people who were saying that the Hutus and the Tutsis can't live together".
Researchers are still debating when this scourge first began afflicting us.
