Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more heed to the real needs of his country than to the blood feud with Israel. Says she: "I don't imagine that tens of millions of people in the Arab countries are prepared to live like this forever, and see their children dead because of lack of food and medical care just for the grandeur of their leaders who want to destroy Israel." Peace may come eventually. But given the nonpacific way in which the year 5729 went out last week, it is not likely to come during the year 5730, or for many years thereafter...
...reduce the algae's bacterial food supply, the scientists fumigated the grotto with an aerosol of powerful antibiotics (penicillin, streptomycin and kanamycin). Next, they tackled Palmellococcus itself. They found that a spray of formaldehyde mixed with detergent not only killed the algae-which gradually lost their color-but had no ill effect on the paintings themselves...
...investment rather than keep its capital in the serenity of real estate holdings. Another group, headed by Insurance Executive Ettore Lolli, joined with Tiremaker Leopoldo Pirelli to oust the conservative management of La Centrale, a holding company that had most of its $200 million portfolio in real estate and food. The new management has turned La Centrale toward a more active role in both domestic and foreign investment...
Instead of screaming there is eating. The typical freshman gains fifteen pounds in her first year of dorm life. Girls coming home after dates roam the kitchens looking for snacks. People eat ravenously at dinner as they discuss how fat they are getting and how bad the food is. By over-eating people repeat the vicious circle operating in all parts of dorm life: poor conditions cause strains which are temporarily relieved by aggravating the conditions...
...major exporting nations, except the U.S., have expanded their wheat acreage. In Australia, for example, the amount of farm land devoted to wheat has doubled in the last five years. Improved technology and a new high-yield strain of dwarf wheat have greatly reduced the annual import needs of food-shy India and Pakistan. Both countries now expect to become self-sufficient in wheat production by the mid-1970s...