Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peppers accompanied by home made corn liquor. "I'm eleven pounds heavier than when I became President," Barrientos told TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia last week. "The only way the campesinos have of showing affection is to feed you. The only way to show appreciation is to eat the food...
Deprivation dwarfs often show the symptoms of their syndrome by the age of two. Extremely shy, unable to control their tempers, insatiably hungry and thirsty (drinking water out of toilet bowls is one sign), they crave bizarre food substitutes for the love they miss. Indeed, when doctors can find no organic cause for a stunted child, they look for strange behavior as the key to diagnosis. Although few parents are candid about an unhappy home, researchers have compiled a list of typical situations, including alcoholism, sexual incompatibility, illness, beatings, unemployment and unwanted pregnancies...
...these children sometimes become dwarfs is unknown. Some researchers suspect the pituitary gland, the body's governor of growth. Others believe that continuous anxiety makes a victim's digestive system less able to absorb food. Although doctors see a connection between a baby's mental state and growth, they cannot yet show how an emotional problem becomes a physical one. They do know that no matter how deprivation dwarfs thrive in a hospital, the spurt often ends when they return to the homes that started the trouble...
...December rise, reflecting mainly higher cost of food, medical care and rent, amounted to only 0.2% over the November level-one of the lowest in creases in 23 months of inflation. But rising wholesale costs of such items as metal and lumber will continue to ripple through the economy in higher price tags on consumer items...
Certainly Dixon is responsible for the present inactivity of the agency--James Goddard's excellent tenure in the Food and Drug Administration showed the difference in an agency's efficacy that a vigorous administrator can make. Widespread replacement of personnel by men with a more wary view of business practices would indeed change the whole character of the agency. But the Nader report also notes that the conclusions of the Hoover Commission in 1949 were much the same as the F.T.C. deficiencies of 1969. Though the immediate problem lies with Dixon and his appointees, such consistent faults suggest consistent causes...