Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reducing Diet. To stay afloat, newspapers have tried everything from diversification (the Charlotte Observer turned a tidy profit last year by leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...
...satellite dams. They would generate 974,000 kw. (100 times as much as produced now in Ghana), back up a man-made lake that would equal the world's biggest (3,500 sq. mi.), which itself would create a new fishing industry to improve the protein-shy Ghanaian diet. Cost of dams, generating plants, power lines: $325 million...
Running the business are a respectable-looking couple fond of saying, "The Diet puts forth a law which claims to protect you girls, but they lie. It's we owners who are really protecting you. Without us you would starve. We're social workers. So work hard. And please don't become too haggard. You're for sale...
...Canadian boy has been found with three times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said Dr. Schulert, "since the growing fetal skeleton reflects the diet of the mother," and the fast-growing fetus is especially vulnerable to damage from radiation...
...Drugs do not release patients from the need to control their weight and adhere strictly to a prescribed diet...