Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Stockton, health service director at UMass-Boston, says it would not be prudent to develop and put into effect specific policies. At the eastern end of Cambridge, MIT spokesmen say the university deals with outbreaks of AIDS on an ad hoc basis...
...will become increasingly difficult to use drugs and make a living. The economic deterrent may begin to succeed where the legal deterrent has failed. Says Walsh of the National Institute on Drug Abuse: "We feel that if Big Business continues as it has in the last year to develop more and more stringent kinds of policies, it eventually will reduce the demand for illicit substances. It may be very effective in changing the way people view drug taking in this country...
...Mafia in crime-controlled industries, the report states. New York City's construction business is dominated by the Mob; of 94 building projects surveyed, 87% bought overpriced concrete from just two Mob-related companies, even though the area offers 26 suppliers. The commission urged the Administration to develop a "national strategy" against organized crime. Merely jailing mobsters has not broken their power over the marketplace, the panel says. By the beginning of 1982, some 113 New Jersey longshoremen had been convicted of racketeering, but most of those same players, or their successors, are back on the scene. Furthermore, federal prosecutors...
...groups in the prevalence of osteoarthritis, or degenerative joint disease. However, the runners, ages 50 to 72, did have 40% higher bone density than their counterparts in the control group. "Running prevents bone loss," concludes Lane, "and that's a good finding for women," since they often develop osteoporosis after menopause. At the University of Florida, Gainesville, Dr. Richard Panush and his colleagues compared a group of 17 male runners, ages 50 to 74, with a similar group of 18 non runners and, like the Stanford team, turned up no significant differences in the incidence of joint disease. "Our results...
...rebuild the battered agency, the Administration brought back a former NASA administrator: James Fletcher, 66, leader of NASA from 1971 to 1977 and a physicist who headed a commission that urged Ronald Reagan to develop a Star Wars defense against missiles. The mild-mannered Fletcher comes to the post with one handicap: he has accused the Rogers commission of being engaged in a "witch-hunt...