Word: feed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second-semester junior, who declared last June, spent all but two weekends since registration wooing votes. Campbell conducted a door-to-door compaign and enlisted 25 friends to help him write more than 1300 letters. In all, the campaign cost him $650--for stamps, bumperstickers and "beer to feed friends...
There are many factors which influence mothers in developing countries to bottle feed rather than breast feed their infants. These include a lack of encouragement by health professionals, the fact that the breast has become a sex symbol and the belief that breast feeding may alter the contour of the breast, and the false impression that breast feeding is primitive and bottle feeding is sophisticated. But the main reason that women in developing countries bottle feed is that they falsely believe it is better for their infants. This belief has come largely from the promotional practices of the corporations...
...their infants and may even be lethal. Large sums of money have been spent on promotion to the public and to physicians. Many different tactics have been utilized, including the wide use of mass media, the issuing of free samples to new mothers to get them hooked onto formula feeding, the employment of nurses (so called "milk nurses") to persuade mothers to bottle feed, and what must be regarded as "pay offs" to influential physicians...
...question one must ask oneself is whether he or she believes Nestles has helped persuade mothers to bottle feed and has encouraged them to do something that is not in the best interests of their babies' health. Nestles claims that it has made significant changes, and it is begging to be taken off the hook. It is clear that these small changes indicate first an admission of guilt, and second that the boycott and the adverse publicity have been effective...
...cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount of milk while remaining in glowing health...