Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most of our people and politicians have not yet realized the danger," says a top-level West German narcotics agent, "but the situation is almost out of hand already." Overworked police are appealing to the federal government for tougher antidrug laws and more manpower. Says Erich Strass, the federal crime office's narcotics chief: "We must put the drug danger on the same level with the terrorist danger. Otherwise we will be overwhelmed in a year...
Antibiotics like penicillin, streptomycin and tetracycline have revolutionized medicine, and they have been wonder drugs for agriculture as well. Today about two-thirds of our cattle and nearly all poultry, hogs and veal calves are raised on feed laced with the drugs. Animals consume almost 8 million Ibs. a year, nearly 40% of U.S. production. The antibiotics not only keep them healthy in their crowded pens but, for reasons not yet clear, also speed up growth on less feed. Now, after a quarter-century of largely uncritical acceptance, the practice is being sharply questioned. Reason: the drugs the animals consume...
...follow the example of Britain and other European countries in limiting antibiotics in animal feeds. But a coalition of pharmaceutical manufacturers and farming interests has persuaded Congress to stay any action pending further studies.* This group contends that the real culprits are physicians who prescribe antibiotics indiscriminately for almost any ailment: colds, for instance, which are caused by viruses and are unaffected by antibiotics...
...which is Monte Dourado), as well as an 85-bed hospital, four schools, 4,500 miles of roads and trails, a 26-mile railroad, and three small airports. The project has attracted so many job seekers, peddlers and hangers-on that the population of the area has surged from almost nothing...
...Diaghilev was a charlatan, Richard Buckle shows in this exhaustive new biography that he was also a historical necessity. Almost alone, he bridged the old and new centuries. He was at home in the twilight romanticism of the 1890s. But he was also one of the first to recognize the vigorous new iconoclasts, whose art and music would soon sweep away the lingering shades...