Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure by the committee and subsequent court decisions did the Department of Agriculture begin to implement the program properly; the program still does not nearly reach all potential recipients. Next year, WIC's authorization expires, and input by the Nutrition Committee will be critical to the future existence and growth of coverage...
...good an artist to give us the story chronologically, mapping out each detail in simple narrative style. Instead, she weaves back and forth across generations, bringing in characters, letting them go, bringing them back again to give us a new insight. The story revolves around the growth of the doctor's grandson, Macon III --or Milkman, as he is generally known--as he moves beyond the dark rooms of his family's house, haunted by death and isolation, into the streets of Southside. There, he meets people who have come to terms with their situation far better than his family...
Excessive fertility is itself a serious obstacle to economic growth. But unless the benefits of growth are directed more equitably to the lower 40% of the income groups, where in fact fertility rates are likely to be the highest, then economic growth as such will not move the society forward at an optimum rate of progress. But through an increase in income, small-farm families will almost certainly experience a beneficial decline in their traditionally high fertility. For the income will give them access to better health and education and living standards, which in turn are likely to lead...
Medicine. Through its myriad glands-and the hormones they secrete into the bloodstream-the endocrine system acts as a kind of bodily Mission Control, regulating a variety of functions, from growth to sexual activity. The three winners of the prize in physiology or medicine helped unravel the mysteries of that system-and pointed to dramatic new ways of controlling it when it goes awry...
...immediate-and surprising-payoff. Yalow and Berson found that most adult diabetics did not have a shortage of the hormone insulin in their blood. Rather, it was present in abundance; only its sugar-metabolizing action was somehow blocked. Subsequently, Yalow and others developed similar RIAS for detecting human growth hormone, hepatitis virus and other biological substances. Today the RIA technique is used by labs around the world...