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These groups have often warred with Stare because he has prominently and repeatedly pooh-poohed warnings about excess sugar consumption in the United States, contradicting, the report says, "one of the few accepted nutritional principles, namely, that Americans eat far too much sugar." In an interview published in January 1974, for example, Stare said that most people could healthily double their daily sugar intake. Stare's defense of food additives has similarly riled those who argue that many of the chemicals are unsafe...
...against 9.3%. But surprisingly few of the XYYs' offenses involved aggression. The research team's conclusions: the XYY abnormality is likely to lead to lower intelligence and perhaps to some lawbreaking, usually petty. But whatever the offenses, they do not appear to result from a simple excess of aggression...
...attacks on profits are more rhetorical than real. No excess-profits tax has been levied on U.S. corporations since the Korean War. In fact, the regular federal tax on corporate profits has been lowered over the past three years from 52% to 48%. Hardly anyone questions the basic right of business to make some profit. The question has been, how much...
...left after taxes are either paid out as dividends to stockholders ($32.1 billion in 1975) or reinvested in the business ($33.2 billion). Most of those profits that are turned into dividend checks are then taxed a second time, as income, when they reach the shareholders' mailboxes-an excess that Democratic Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter says he disapproves...
...gets some speed, she'll hit 240 ft." No devotee of training-she chain-smokes Tareyton 100s and quaffs beer with true zeal-Schmidt will check in at Montreal at 6 ft. 1 in. and 178 Ibs., some 10 Ibs. heavier than she would like -the excess due more to weightlifting than beverages. Schmidt also will take to Montreal not only her immense desire to win, but her élan, something that her archfoe lacks...