Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Asked which specific services should be expanded or reduced, voters tended to feel government should spend more in most areas. Twice as many (45% to 22%) favored increased rather than decreased spending on education; three times as many (51% to 17%) favored more rather than less spending on health care; more than six times as many (59% to 9%) favored increased rather than decreased spending on fighting crime. A slim margin favored increased spending on defense and transportation. The only areas where a large majority of voters advocated cuts were in welfare and foreign aid. Just over 50% said that...
Department of Education. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Carter proposed a Cabinet-level Department of Education, arguing that schools would then get more attention than they do from the huge bureaucracy of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Opposed by both liberals and conservatives, the bill died in committee...
Challenging Synanon can be hazardous to health and wealth
...county health board is trying to evict Osterberg from his home, maintaining that the coop is too small and too primitive for human habitation because it has no toilet or running water. Says County Health Director Alfred Ahern: "You can't live like Pappy did on the frontier." But Osterberg argues that the absence of running water is no health threat because he uses the bathroom of a college building five blocks away. He has no intention of flying the coop, and is appealing the eviction order in court...
Arber's theories were verified by Smith, 47, a former naval medical officer and member of the U.S. Public Health Service who turned to genetic research. In 1970 Smith published two classic papers that described his discovery of a restriction enzyme produced by the bacterium Hemophilus influenzae and the way it worked...