Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause appears to be the lack of a single enzyme which is supposed to aid in the breakdown of something called isovaleric acid into simpler compounds. If the enzyme is missing, the acid accumulates in the body and a whole chain of chemical reactions is broken...
Isovaleric acid is produced from auamino acid called leucine which is found in many proteins. If most of the protein can be removed from the diet the problem of the blocked chemical chain can be indirectly solved by eliminating the chain entirely...
...square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better to plug the movie's thesis that mental health nowadays may be a mixed blessing...
...postwar shift in U.S. grocery shopping from small corner stores to giant supermarkets, no chain grew more aggressively than Chicago-based National Tea Co. From its position as a middle-sized Midwestern chain in the 1940s, National spread south as far as New Orleans and west to Denver, absorbed 22 smaller chains with 485 stores in 16 states. The acquisitions helped double sales, made National stores the fifth largest U.S. grocery chain, with $1.2 billion sales last year from 941 stores. Last week, after a marathon investigation, the Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1 that National, between...
Broad & Debatable. The decision is one of the broadest-and most debatable-ever made with regard to antitrust laws. The FTC has long worried about the increasing concentration in the food-merchandising industry. In earlier decisions it ordered three of the largest U.S. dairy chains, Foremost, Borden and Beatrice, to divest themselves of small companies they had acquired. It recently ordered Grand Union Stores to get rid of nine stores, and Consolidated Foods to spin off three chains as well as a dairy and a bakery; it is still investigating the Kroger Co. for 42 chain-store acquisitions dating...