Word: following
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...addition to overseeing the areas sketched above--a full-time job in itself--the committee has much more to do in the future. First, there is continued follow-up on its series of hearings on Diet and Disease. In the course of these hearings the committee found that poor diet--both under- and over-consumption--contributes to six ot the ten leading fatal diseases in this country. As a first attack on this problem, the committee published in January of this year a report entitled Dietary Goals for the United States. It outlined recommendations for action by government, industry...
...Yokum goes broke, he says he will follow countless other farmers and go to a big city to look for a job. "Of course, I'd rather not do it. I really hope to continue farming." He cannot help wondering, however, whether he will be able to avoid the fate of his brother, a Texas farmer who went bankrupt last year...
...love that come over with it. The excesses and exaggerations that he applies have shocked lots of people, but with him they are fantastic." Yehudi Menuhin finds nothing surprising in such an approach. "Rubato is part of Slava's way of being," he explains. "He doesn't have to follow a dry metronomic beat. As a string player, he knows what it is to form a phrase, and this is something that not many conductors know...
America's clean sweep of the Nobel prizes in 1976 was a hard act to follow. Last week, when seven 1977 prizewinners in the sciences were announced in Stockholm, five were again Americans. The awards, each worth...
...with no place to go. After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film based on Clarke's screenplay, came Rendezvous with Rama, his 1973 novel which took the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards for science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke has become a hard act to follow, particularly for the author himself...