Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many diverse diseases are complex and indirect, the Burkitt group concedes. Diverticulosis-in which the large bowel is deeply pitted and fecal material is trapped in the crevices-appears to be directly related to a diet rich in such highly refined carbohydrates as white flour and sugar. Tumors, both benign and malignant, are related to biochemical and bacterial changes caused by long retention of feces. As for heart disease: "Evidence is accumulating that shows that the removal of fiber from the diet raises serum cholesterol levels, a process that predisposes to coronary heart disease...
...glossy little brochure went on to list and advertise a number of the "unique and intimate" specialty shops and boutiques in the Square area and to hint at a community ambience of benign craziness. It sounded like the summer of '69 had gotten a little Establishment backing and been preserved in brick and wood--all for you, the student...
...being made to ease the plight of America's 20 million blacks, Nixon adopted a hands-off approach. His textual justification, wrenched out of its context, was Moynihan's statement that "the time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." Moynihan was saying not only that the issue had been "too much talked about" but also that other minorities (Indians, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans) were not getting enough attention. In any neglect" case, to seemed many distinctly blacks, malign. "benign...
Increased reliance on nuclear power is "unpalatable" because the benign attitudes of nuclear power proponents toward the development of new nuclear plants are false and unrealistic, MIT physicist Henry W. Kendall said yesterday...
Others took a far less benign view of such Nixonian negligence. "I ask every doctor and lawyer and every insurance agent and accountant in the country, what kind of a land would you be living in if a group of hired hands have the power to come into your office in the dead of night in order to get one of your files?" protested Democrat Sarbanes. "Why was not the FBI brought into this matter if it was a legitimate matter for governmental actions? Because the plumbers were doing illegal things that the FBI refused...