Word: delaney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate passed the College Opportunity Act in August by a wide 68-14 margin, but Rep. Jim Delaney (D-N.Y.) has refused to let the bill, called the Middle-Income Assistance Act in the House, out of the Rules Committee which he chairs. An aide to the Education Subcommittee of the Senate human resources committee says Delaney is a supporter of tax credits and fears the death of the tax credit plan if the Opportunity Act makes it through Congress...
Saccharin users were also heartened when Morris Cranmer, director of the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research, criticized the Delaney clause, the law that requires the FDA to prohibit the use of any food additive shown to induce cancer in laboratory animals. In a 700-page report to FDA Head Donald Kennedy, Cranmer argued that the law failed to take into account that the potential risk of cancer from saccharin might be outweighed by possible benefits to diabetics or the obese...
...directive banning saccharin came after Canadian studies showed that saccharin induced tumors in rats. Under the "Delaney Clause," an amendment to federal food and drug legislation, the FDA must declare unsafe any substance found to cause tumors when ingested by animals...
...Edward Delaney Eight years ago, Sculptor Delaney, now 44, owed $24,000 to the Irish tax collector and was preparing to emigrate to the U.S. Then the Haughey bill was passed. Delaney stayed, and Ireland retained one of its more colorful national assets. In his roisterous youth, Delaney was famed for pub crawls with Brendan Behan and for having been expelled from Dublin's National College of Art ("Inspiration didn't automatically come to me between 9 and 5"). Today in his Dublin studio and on his stony ocean-front farm in County Galway, Delaney fashions sculptures from...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes entirely out of context to in-pugning that "health faddist, Gloria Swanson, somewhat better known at that time (and before) for her dramatic abilities." It was people of Swanson's ilk, we are told, who had to spoil it for everybody: they lobbied for that silly Delaney Clause (banning any amount of known cancer producing additives from food consumed by American human beings) in 1958, and now look what they've done. Why, you can't even nosh on a sodium nitrite dog any more without coming down with a dose of what Feedback happily diagnoses...