Word: flora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem was Flora Souza. Flora Souza is the president of Home Health Inc., a California health care company that HEW pays through the Medicare program. In early January, the Social Security Administration notified HEW's office of investigations that there might be fraud involved in the department's payments to Souza's companies. Enter John J. Walsh, director of HEW's office of investigations...
Meanwhile, HEW's chief investigator, John J. Walsh, resigned from the department because he thought Califano was trying to slow down Walsh's investigation of Medicare fraud in California, particularly his probe of Flora Souza, president of Home Health, Inc. in San Jose...
...souls of the dead rest in peace a little dryer." Other writers suggested bans on selling and filling water beds, using Jacuzzi baths and sprinkling golfing greens and tennis courts. One advocated cutting back on water-guzzling yard plants like camellias and azaleas; cacti and other desert flora could be planted instead...
This effect of the environment in the gut on the normal flora is readily recognized. For example, when breast feeding is replaced by solid food the character of the stool changes dramatically, as lactic acid bacteria (which produce sweet-smelling products) are replaced by E. coli and other foul organisms. Early in this century Mechnikov romantically hoped to promote longevity by supplying lactic acid bacteria, in the form of yogurt, to displace the presumably toxic foul organisms. The experiments were a dismal failure, but the commerical success is still seen...
...thin Crimson crowd cheered when Fitzsimmons passed Flora's shoulder with a half-mile left, but Flora regained the lead with three laps left and finished in 8:56.6, a new meet record...