Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knows, though some programs are fatter than others...
...overuse of wonder drugs is caused not only by indiscriminate prescriptions. An astonishing 40% of all the antibiotics used in this country are put into livestock feed to make animals grow fatter. As a result, bacteria resistant to antibiotics are accumulating rapidly in the environment. In 1977 the Food and Drug Administration tried to limit such stock-feed boosters, but under heavy pressure from drug companies, Congress simply ordered more research...
...both Kaufman and Wojnilower support the Reagan Administration's austere economic policies but are somewhat skeptical about some of its supply-side assumptions. They doubt that the large tax cuts will result in a burst of saving and growth, believing rather that the outcome will be a still fatter federal deficit. Therefore, they are calling for tougher fiscal and monetary policies. Kaufman contends that across-the-board tax cuts should be postponed and the federal budget should be balanced by next year. Woj ilower advocates placing controls on the amount of credit that banks can issue. Wall Street...
...friend is Warren Penfield, a failed poet who prints his own works, a baleful-eyed generous man, fatter than Warren Harding himself, a world-traveler, a peculiar sort of war hero, a Buddhist. Penfield twists the story; he exists in the first person at times, but these are Joe's versions of Penfield. And Doctorow dances between the future and the past. One moment Penfield is a coal miner's son from Seattle, the next he is a Caucasian gorilla probing the mysteries of Zen in a rice palace outside Tokyo. And Doctorow's prose switches just as quickly...
Edna Mae (Ellen Burstyn) is a faith healer without an orthodox faith. Though the deaf and the halt are cured at her touch, she is no manic Holy Roller, no snake-shaking spellbinder invoking God's immediate intervention for the sake of a fatter collection plate. She is a sensible Kansas widow, retrieved from a brush with death, who restores health "in the name of love." Love is all she wants to give to the two men in her life: her stern pa (Roberts Blossom), who responds to her proffered caress both as a seduction and a slap...