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Despite such apparent benefits, many groups such as the Massachusetts Citizens' Rights Association, Inc., have lobbied against the state project since the plan's inception ten years ago. The group opposes fluoridation on the basis of individual rights, Elizabeth E. Dyer, secretary of the association, says...
...entitled to freedom of choice, and no segment of the population can tell us what we should drink," Dyer says. "We don't believe we should be made guinea pigs," she adds...
...organization also argues that excessive amounts of fluoride in drinking water may be carcinogenic. Dyer cited a 1975 study by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, science director of the National Health Federation (NHF), another anti-fluoridation group, based in California. That study indicated that during a 20-year period cancer death rates in ten large fluoridated cities surpassed those in comparably sized non-fluoridated cities...
...earnings-an average of 19% a year, compounded, for more than two decades-mainly by mass-merchandising its casinos and shows. Last year it spent $36 million on promotion and brought in more than a quarter of a million patrons by bus, mostly from nearby California. Acknowledges President Lloyd Dyer: "We are the Safeway of the industry...
With $50 million in spare cash, Harrah's is starting to search elsewhere for new jackpots. On the drawing board at corporate headquarters are plans for an Australian casino ("They're the gamblingest fools in the world down there," says Dyer) and "Harrah's World," a Disney-like entertainment-gambling complex west of Reno. But the company's aversion to debt and its insistence on rigid controls over the tiniest details of its business mean Harrah's will probably not diversify very fast. The odds are heavy against its opening a casino in New Jersey...