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Word: action (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Food and Drug Administration isn't much better. A Congressional panel remarks that the FDA's formal rulemaking procedures "are complex, cumbersome, and time-consuming." As a result, the FDA usually relies on informal "action levels" if a chemical is present at levels above a certain level, the contaminated food can be seized. The action levels, however, can be set with little or no public input and little or no supporting scientific evidence. The result: possible dangerous levels of chemicals may be passing through the FDA's regulatory machinery with the FDA's blessing...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: ...Another Man's Poison | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

...goal of this action is not to provoke a fight, nor is it to get arrested," organizers said yesterday. "Rather, our vision is to collectively create, in conjunction with local residents, an anti-nuclear community of people building, gardening and living on the site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Nuke Groups Win Support For Occupation at Seabrook | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

...where we live. But we have a plan. Our special operations team has a series of memos about these 'new wave' bands that will have every parent in the country quaking, every John Bircher in arms, and every god-fearing American writing a letter to his congressman demanding action...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...Gary Numan and Tubeway Army," were the most extraordinary find of our ongoing investigation into "new wave" music. This album--the cover pictures a creature not apparently human-- confirms a suspicion our experts have long held: that the entire so-called "new wave" movement is really a fifth column action for a takeover effort by an alien race from some as-yet-undetermined nearby solar system...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

Ingram refused to say whether this action was connected with the amount or type of missing uranium or the circumstances of its disappearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nuclear Plant Reports Uranium Loss | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

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