Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remained a working anthropologist to the end. One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted. But in recent years Mead, who had survived malaria, three marriages, several miscarriages and years of native foods, found her health failing. "I know I can't live forever," she often said. "I'm just not ready...
...Commission were started. But most of the excesses that are drawing fire were born in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, when the focus turned from industry control to social reform and a large number of new bureaus were formed, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Consumer Product Safety Commission...
Probably the most criticized agency is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA mandates in lavish detail characteristics that machinery must have rather than simply setting standards for safety on the job and letting companies devise their own ways for meeting them. On construction sites, the agency simultaneously demands that trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles have loud back-up horns and that workers wear hearing protectors to cut down noise levels. Although the agency has widely trumpeted its recent attempts to eliminate some of its sillier rules, many still remain...
...many spend far more than any other nation on health care, but in some respects its standard of health is surprisingly low. According to World Health Organization statistics, it ranks 15th among the developed nations for infant mortality and 17th in life expectancy for males. Yet the AMA claims that the present system provides "the best medical care in the world...
...scheme is based largely on the existing Canadian system rather than the European models. Yet much of the underlying philosophy is similar. In practice the U.S. would have 30 years of European experience to learn from. On the basis of this they could probably make a national health insurance scheme work better and avoid some of the problems encountered by the NHS. It needs only sufficient political will for these measures to be introduced. Kennedy is confident that this is bound to come; if not in the next session of Congress, then in the next one. In the meantime, high...