Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city-appointed committee of area public health experts has found no sign that Cambridge's only high school poses serious health risks to its students and faculty, a school department spokesperson said yesterday...
When the tranquilizer Valium became the most frequently prescribed drug of the stressed-out 1970s, F. Hoffmann-La Roche reached the peak of good health. Thanks largely to Valium and its sister sedative, Librium, the Swiss-based Hoffmann-La Roche became the No. 1 maker of prescription pharmaceuticals and one of the most profitable companies on earth. But lulled by the success of Valium, whose U.S. patent expired four years ago, the company failed to keep pace in the '80s with such aggressive rivals as U.S.-based Merck and Swiss neighbors Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. Symbolic of Hoffmann-La Roche...
...distinguished 34-year tenure as conductor-for- life. With a curt, 17-line note to West Berlin's new culture minister Anke Martiny, the Salzburg-born Karajan, 81, severed his often troubled relationship with an orchestra widely regarded as the finest in the world. The reason given was ill health, but to an even greater extent Karajan was bowing to pressure from both his restive orchestra and the West Berlin senate...
...acre Hyde Park, N.Y., campus of the Culinary Institute of America, known in food circles as "the other C.I.A.," the school runs four different restaurants. The 1,850 students learn regional U.S. dishes for the American Bounty Kitchen, Italian fare for the Caterina de Medici restaurant and health- conscious dinners for St. Andrew's Cafe...
...explanations and indictments rolled in last week, the New York City case continued to feed a debate about freedom and fear, anarchy and obligation. "Blaming society, parents, poverty, racism, school systems and neighborhoods for teenage violence is too easy," said Dr. Edward Shaw, director of mental health for the New York State division of youth. "It does not answer the question Why do some teenagers in the same environment get into trouble and others do not?" There were those still willing to look for the hard answers last week. But others could only watch a woman in a coma, hear...