Word: call
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Squibb explains: U.S.P. standards call for 98 tests, consuming 125 hours, at eleven steps in the manufacture, while Squibb's quality control requires 374 tests, taking 406 hours, at 35 stages. Squibb runs a three-hour test on one of the alcohols used in manufacturing, another of 16 hours on corn-steep liquor, and one of 22 hours on city water. The U.S.P. requires none of these. Moreover, Squibb offers its penicillin G in twelve different strengths, dosages and combinations, some of which make no money, while most manufacturers of generic penicillin G make only...
Munson is in dead earnest-and so are Riverhead parents who have swamped him with calls accusing him of being an ogre who is blocking the natural development of children. "Everywhere I go, people come up and call me the Big Bad Wolf or worse," says Munson. "They say I'm taking the fun out of childhood, when all I'm trying to do is remove some of the danger...
...much manipulated U.S. economy, two of the nation's most prestigious economic voices last week prescribed the same course-for widely differing reasons. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and William McChesney Martin, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, renewed the call for a tax increase to fend off inflation...
...responds to is word from cronies or ex-crew members, and she does not lack for that. Messages come with poignant regularity from shore-bound mariners needing loans or new pickup trucks, who cable a likely description of the sailor. She is compelled to answer as if to the call of sirens, but scarcely cares when instead of her beloved she finds a swindler in Dahomey or a filling-station attendant in Sete. The same indifference is adopted by her new lover, the young Parisian, who comes to realize that their only true bond is their endless quixotic search...
...between skepticism and outright vulgarity. I would like merely to inquire how this conflict will look when minds, those of supporters and adversaries alike, are no longer subject to the congealing influences of war. And I would like then to propose the course of action--I venture even to call it the solution--that emerges from such a view...