Word: delaney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of us in Hinsdale [May 2] are aware that we must conserve energy and we'll learn to do so. If Patricia Delaney had looked closely, she would have noticed that the majority of children bike to school and around the village. It is also common to see numerous bikers riding to and from the train and grocery-shopping in our local supermarkets...
...succeed, U.S. suburbanites-the nation's most careless squanderers of energy-will have to change their attitudes substantially, and their life-styles somewhat, too. To learn how one representative American suburb uses energy, and how it has responded to Carter's call for conservation, TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney went to Hinsdale, Illinois. Then, to see how another affluent suburb takes a different approach to the same problem, TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman visited Rösrath, outside of Cologne, West Germany. Their reports...
...Touch of Cynicism. Kennedy's ruling was an obvious bit of political backpedaling to escape the explosion of consumer fury caused by the original decree. It was also a somewhat clubfooted end run around the so-called Delaney clause of the 1958 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which dictates the banning of any food additives that cause cancer in humans or laboratory animals. In the case of saccharin, some Canadian rats developed bladder cancer when they were fed the sweetener in amounts that would be equivalent, in a human, to 800 cans of diet soda...
...power expanded even further because of the Delaney clause and the lobbying efforts of the late Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator, an early appreciator of the political appeal of consumerism, pushed through legislation allowing the FDA to ban drugs unless they could be proved effective as well as safe. Thus the agency became involved in preventing possible products from reaching the market, as well as demanding the withdrawal of hazardous ones. Since 1962 the FDA has kept more than 6,500 prescription drugs off the market because their effectiveness could not be demonstrated. The number of over-the-counter products...
...results from a Canadian study linking the sugar substitute with bladder cancer in rats. The Delaney Amendment, which prohibits the addition of any substance to food if studies show the substance to cause cancer in human or animals, requires the bans...