Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respond to his treatment, which includes rest, good care and good food, and excludes liquor and tobacco. That is enough to insure that many will feel better. But there is no scientific evidence that his cellular treatment has any value, said Dorman, and of course any injection of foreign protein could cause a bad reaction...
Lest anyone conclude that medical quackery is only a foreign specialty, A.M.A. President Dwight L. Wilbur offered some sobering estimates of the annual take from the domestic variety. He cited the FDA's standard figure of about $1 billion a year but suggested that this covered only interstate quackery. Wilbur estimated that intrastate quackery, immune to federal authority, probably mulets the sick of another $1 billion...
Political Points. By playing on jingoism, the junta also seemed to be playing with the country's present economic wellbeing. The expropriation threatened to frighten off foreign investors. The U.S. could always cut off economic aid if the Jersey Standard subsidiary does not receive satisfactory compensation. Washington is also in a position to suspend purchases of Peruvian sugar, some $40 million a year...
...left and new government pressures for greater program-mazione, or central economic planning. What promoted the move more than anything else was a feud between Montedison's Valerio and Eugenio Cefis, 47, boss of ENI. Cefis was convinced that Italian firms, in order to fare better in foreign markets, had to "coordinate" their sales abroad in a kind of cartel arrangement. Valerio seemed more interested in competing. Cefis, whose obsessive secrecy has won him the appellation "the Ghost," decided to team up with I.R.I, and go after Montedison. His decision had the government's enthusiastic support...
...keep France French, Charles de Gaulle has assumed the right to pass the final word on certain business deals. He must, for example, approve any arrangement that would deliver more than 20% of a French company into foreign hands. Last week De Gaulle used his veto to upset a planned union of France's troubled Citroen auto firm with...