Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delegate Christian A. Herter Jr. warned that North American food reserves available for emergencies are now down to 27 days of world consumption. "Meanwhile," said Herter, "200,000 more people are born each day and have to be fed." Clearly, a catastrophic famine could some day occur, and Herter's warnings appeared to be merely stating the obvious...
...restrictions came as a result of an Abbott-sponsored study in which a few rats fed vast amounts of a cyclamate-saccharin mixture, plus added cyclohexylamine (a breakdown product of cyclamate), showed some bladder tumors. Since that first study, other scientists have conducted studies on cyclamate in an attempt to duplicate those results. None of these studies show any cancer-causing effects from cyclamate. Although none of these studies were requested or paid for by Abbott, they are the studies that Abbott has submitted to the Food and Drug Administration to support its food-additive petition, which, if approved, would...
Saving the building, which was being used as a furniture warehouse, was not really the issue. Instead, with 32 fast-food eating places already along Mass Ave between Harvard and MIT, the community was simply saying it was fed up and wanted to avoid the humiliation of living next door to those too-familiar yellow arches...
...best way to drive from Washington and Lee to Sweetbriar, and feeling for the first time that I wasn't like them any more. These people, it struck me, were perhaps the real Southerners, and they were neither poetic nor haunted by the past; they were clean-cut, well-fed young future businessmen and housewives, conservative and full of good cheer. I, on other other hand, was a little scrawny and scraggly-haired by their standards, my clothes a little too old and loose-fitting, my conversations tending toward the morose and reflective where my old friends were at complete...
...House measure sets new fed eral standards for the "regrading and re-vegetating" of stripped land, and also for the preservation of water tables (removal of the coal can divert underground streams and deprive neighboring farmers and ranchers of precious water). The bill also provides funding for restoration of previously mined land...