Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fluoridation is by far the single most cost-effective way to prevent tooth decay on a large scale," Lawrence says. The cost of maintaining a public fluoridation system adds up to only 10 to 20 cents per person per year, he adds. Installing the new system will cost $1.15 million and annual maintenance will cost $650,000, James Gillis, associate civil engineer for the Water Division of the MDC, says...
Fluoride ions work into the crystalline structure of the tooth surface and make the structure a more perfect and thus more stable crystal. The tooth is therefore less susceptible to decay by acid attack. (Tooth decay is largely caused by acid dissolution of enamel. Acid is a byproduct of food decay...
...home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring for the author's stern intelligence and overriding awareness of social forces. In his own eccentric way, the city planner is trying to understand the dispiriting decay of his time and his place. He wants to reconcile his early socialist ideals with the "society of centralized reallocation" that he and his fellow bureaucrats have engineered. He wonders why the exercise of power has left him feeling so weak: "A planner can neither improve things nor make them much...
...still controlled and regulated by the colonialist masters. Our political parties have no well-defined programs. Most of our leaders have become thoughtless and unwholesome. Our politicians are more of salesmen than statesmen. Much wealth accumulates in the hands of a few while a majority of the people decay with misery and poverty. The intellectual elite that was vocal, vital and critical of corrupt governments has chosen to either join the corruption, flee the country or suffer in silence. The army which should protect the interest of the people has become fickle-minded and equally as corrupt as the governments...
...statement, called the "Manifesto of the Democratic Movement," attacked the "present economic disorganization, decay of authority and disintegration of society." The reason for this situation, it argued, was "the usurpation of the rights of citizens and the robbing of the nation's independence...