Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there on the information label: "Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools." Both Frito-Lay and P&G claim their test marketing hasn't turned up any unforeseen health problems. Nevertheless, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the watchdog organization that warned Americans against the fat content of movie popcorn, is lobbying the FDA to rescind its approval of olestra, claiming that the additive is not as harmless as claimed...
...when I was talking to a television reporter about the controversy over the rating system that will be used to offer parents guidance about which programs they may want to block. The television industry, which is in the enviable position of writing its own warning label, has resisted the content-based system favored by virtually everybody else, presumably on the theory that warnings of violent or suggestive content could scare off viewers and advertisers...
Networks may also dread a content-based rating system because of the potential embarrassment of seeing most of their programs listed in the paper with an accompanying V for Violence or L for Language or S for Sex. Think about what could happen if the industry ever lost control of the ratings, and someone like the editor in charge of the television listings decided to offer absolutely honest appraisals. The daytime talk shows would be rated PE for Pathetic Exploitation; the shopping channel would carry a UA for Untrammeled Acquisitiveness; and most sitcoms would be rated MT for Mindless Trash...
Even without those improvements, I told the reporter, I thought content-based ratings might be specific enough to serve some purpose. Liberals could block violence, and conservatives could block sex; and in a desperate attempt to see plenty of both, their children might visit each other's homes often enough to make a start on getting along with each other when they grow...
...Lake Victoria's fossil-rich Rusinga Island. It was part of the jaw and skull fragments of a creature called Proconsul africanus, then widely thought to be a human ancestor (though now considered more closely related to the apes). The discovery made them so "exhilarated and also utterly content with each other," Mary wrote in her 1984 biography, Disclosing the Past, "that we cast aside care..." She gave birth to their third son, Philip, nine months later...