Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first area studied by the Commission was that of food chains. They concluded that dioxin, one of the impurities in the herbicide, is "exceedingly toxic, may be quite stable in the environment, and, being fat soluble, may be concentrated as it moves up the food chain into the human diet. Very rough calculations suggest that it is not impossible that significant amounts of dioxin are entering the Vietnamese diet...
...will clearly take stronger presidential leadership to curb a growing feeling in the U.S. that Europe is fat and prosperous enough to protect itself. In the view of all Western European leaders, a swift, major, unilateral U.S. troop cutback?anything under the present 185,000 G.I.s in West Germany is often cited as the peril point?would be immensely damaging. Several Eastern European statesmen privately agree; they point out that the Russians would be far harder to cope with in the absence of U.S. forces on the Continent. "On the road toward a more stable system of security," Brandt told...
...building their showcase, the Communists skillfully capitalized on the region's natural advantages. Emilia-Romagna has long been Italy's richest agricultural region. For the past 20 years, it has led the nation in industrial growth; thanks to an influx of new plants and fat payrolls, the per capita income in Bologna (more than $1,600 a year) is rising at a rate of better than 9% a year. Businessmen find that it is one place where they can count on local Communist politicians to keep obstreperous left-wing labor unions in line...
...falling ax. On Wall Street, some 35% of the work force has been let go since the market turned bearish. Simply through attrition, Shearson, Hammill & Co. reduced its rolls from 3,300 last spring to 2,800 today. A few firms sliced away a little muscle along with much fat. Some firms fired so many clerks that when trading volume picked up in November, the staff could not process orders on time...
...this holiday season, the brokers' fabled bonuses were merely a remembrance of things past. Scarcely 10% of the houses paid any bonuses. On the other hand, Salomon Brothers & Hutz-ler, the big bond-trading house that manages to prosper during the lean years and the fat, paid its employees bonuses of two weeks' to three months' salary...