Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ters a year to these suppliers. Shapiro contends that the regulations are so excessive that if Du Pont were starting out today, "perhaps the company wouldn't make it. Even in the best of times, there is a high infant mortality rate for business. Today we compound the risk with so much Government intervention' that it's a wonder that anyone survives...
...time to rehabilitation. The California department of health is showing interest in Synanon, and the Marin County grand jury is investigating reports of child abuse. Some 132 children, who have been sent to Synanon by courts, probation officers and distraught parents across the country, are housed in a separate compound and designated the "punk squad...
...lines between the San Clemente compound and the outside world apparently have not been severed completely. Nixon still reads a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and follows national and international affairs "with avid interest though not with the same resources he once had," Price says...
...former president receives thousands of letters each month from people throughout the country. A crew of volunteer San Clemente women come to the Nixon compound to keep track of all the correspondence, and occasionally, Nixon will answer a letter personally, Price reports. "Most of the letters Nixon receives are supportive, which may seem surprising," Price says. "There are still a lot of people around the country that like him," he explains...
...attacks. Other studies have shown that shedding flab and following a diet rich in vegetables and vegetable oils, but low in red meat and dairy products-along with moderate drinking (a cocktail or two a day)-can also elevate HDL. In the future, drugs may also be used; a compound known as PHB (for sodium para-hexadecylaminobenzoate) has been shown by Boston University's Dr. William Hollander to raise HDL levels in monkeys...