Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HUSSAINI: No, I don't think so. The Palestinians are opposed to discrimination against any people because of their color or religion. We, the Palestinians, are Semites anyhow...
...discrimination. We say the Law of Return and other laws that deny the Palestinians their rights should be removed. This is what the resolution is trying to say. If you read it, you will see it also condemns discrimination against any people on the basis of race, religion or color...
...ruling was more than 15 years in the making. In 1960 the FDA got jurisdiction over color additives and gave provisional approval to substances already in use, making the approval permanent when safety had been proved. The agency extended Red No. 2's provisional status 14 times as tests continued. In 1971, however, a Russian study linked cancer to Red No. 2, and consumerists in the U.S. stepped up pressure on the FDA to ban the dye. Some now feel that the agency should have ordered the recall of goods containing it. Says Lawyer Anita Johnson of the Public...
...ruling may push up the price of many consumer products. Red No. 40 costs $8.50 per lb., v. $5.50 for No. 2, and manufacturers have to use 30% to 50% more of it to get the same color intensity as with Red No. 2. Even then, the colors do not come out quite the same, so chocolate pudding may look a bit greener. Some potential losers from the FDA ruling: New York's Crompton & Knowles, Chicago's Stange Co., Cincinnati's Hilton-Davis Chemical Co. They relied on Red No. 2 for up to 25% of sales...
...discounters to about $50-a third of the $150 that the highest priced SX-70 sells for at discount. Yet it does the same thing that the more expensive SX-70s do: at a touch of the shutter button, a white card is released that develops into a color picture before the viewer's eyes...