Word: backed
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...monitored by the USDA, the agency responsible for inspecting meat, even though 40 are suspected of causing cancer and 18 are suspected of causing birth defects. Antibiotic arsenic compounds, sulfa drugs (long ago linked to cancer), and the infamous diethylstilbestrol (DES), which was found to cause cervical cancer way back in 1971 in daughters of women who used the drug, are still fed and injected into the animals we eat. Despite the existence of safer alternative drugs, the meat industry continues to pour these certified poisons into the food chain. Ironically, they are used for the prevention and cure...
...sultan of squash is back...
...Jack is back, though his legend and legacy never left. "Harvard has been struggling in a lot of sports," he says. "But we had an old saying about Cambridge: 'Atmosphere of excellence.' And while that shouldn't be taken too seriously, I'd like...
Over the next year or two, the recession will shift attention back on demand. When will real disposable income turn up to reverse the shrinkage in the circular flow of production, income and spending? When will spending attitudes improve to give a little extra boost to retail sales? But this period of demand dominance will be short-lived. If growth were to return to the normal 3 to 4 per cent range, the economy would be running out of energy supplies and industrial capacity as early as 1982 and the stage would be set for another supply-induced recession...
...refusing to discuss "issues which are nonstarters, such as our security forces, our military or our police." He complained that "no country anywhere in the world can accept the dismantling of their security services and the forces that maintain the law." These statements, taped in London and broadcast back in Salisbury, seemed to renege on earlier promises to consider a role for Patriotic Front forces in the transition to independence...