Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Intensive Feeding Center, as the shed is known, was restricted to those children who were 70% below normal weight for their age. They were given pink wristbands and fed four times a day. Those children who were just a little further from death were given red bands and taken to a second shed to be fed twice a day. The doors to both sheds had to be guarded at all times against the crush of hungry people desperate to gain entry...
...three musicians in the crowd are Bass Player Mark O'Toole, Drummer Peter ("Fed") Gill, both 20, and Lead Guitarist Brian ("Nasher") Nash, 21. Johnson, who is front man as well as vocalist, comes on as the archetypal Brit pop poofter, waving a salmon-colored silk scarf as he wafts his way through Springsteen's Born to Run. Boomed a member of the rehearsal audience at Frankie's Saturday Night Live appearance two weeks ago: "Bruce is better...
...Niagara Falls rabbi, goes to Greenwich Village in 1929 to begin his literary venture. The Depression finds him there, receiving a weekly check from a federally sponsored writers' program. Many of the artists and litterateurs of the period had little affection for the hand that fed them; Abel notes with a twinkle that he stayed home and wrote a poem titled How Comrade the Present Addressed Our Party...
Voters used a stylus-like instrument to punch out boxes for as many as 235 candidates or referenda. After the polls closed, the cards were taken to OIT where they were fed into a card reader that tabulated the votes...
...NIMH interviewers questioned nearly 10,000 people living in and around Baltimore, St. Louis and New Haven. The responses were fed into computers and checked against criteria for 13 or more mental disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association's latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Other sections of the survey, covering 2,500 institutionalized patients and some 6,000 people in Los Angeles and Durham, N.C., are expected to be released next year...