Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Surgeon General wants Americans to minimize the use of salt in cooking and at the table, and to limit alcohol intake to no more than two drinks a day. Pregnant women are cautioned to skip liquor altogether. Other advice: adolescent girls and premenopausal women should increase consumption of calcium-rich foods to guard against osteoporosis, and children and women of childbearing age should be sure to eat foods high in iron to prevent anemia, a condition prevalent in low-income families...
...health officials hope the new Surgeon General's report will have the same galvanizing effect on the public's eating habits that the 1964 Government warning about tobacco had on smoking. Koop sees plenty of similarities. Both areas, he says, have been fraught with "controversy and misunderstanding." But with one significant difference: "The depth of the science underlying this report's findings is even more impressive than that for tobacco and health in 1964." Now that the Surgeon General has spoken, will Americans listen...
...sent their Foreign Ministers to the United Nations in New York City to discuss how to put into effect Security Council Resolution 598, which calls for a U.N.-monitored cease-fire. The two officials, Ali Akbar Velayati of Iran and Tariq Aziz of Iraq, met separately with U.N. Secretary- General Javier Perez de Cuellar. But the peace process foundered over Iraq's demand for direct talks, which Iran refused for the moment to accept...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...
...white in a wrongful-death auto accident was $79,000; for a black it was $58,000. Other studies show that sentences for black criminals tend to be longer than those handed down to whites convicted of similar crimes. While blacks make up only 12% of the general population, they account for nearly half of all prison inmates and about 40% of those on death...