Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approved draft of the manifesto proposes a cut in income tax but a new "wealth tax" on the affluent, increased spending on health and social services, a proportional reduction in defense outlays, and an end to the power of the House of Lords, which is overwhelmingly Tory, to delay legislation...
...biggest problems confronting Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisiest city in the world. Smog is close to killing levels: 180-300 mg of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (the government two weeks ago raised the price of gasoline to $2.95 per gal.), nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year; 3,000 driver's licenses are issued in Athens...
...allegations sounded like excerpts from the script of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Lawyer Patrick Murphy, who filed a suit in Chicago last week, charged that between 25 and 100 patients in Illinois' Manteno Mental Health Center underwent "unauthorized and secret" experimental surgery in the 1950s and '60s at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. The surgery removed their adrenal glands, organs atop the kidneys, which produce cortisone and other hormones. The supervising surgeon: Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 77, winner of a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on hormonal treatment of cancer...
Wilson, who has conducted recent studies on the health effects of different energy sources, said yesterday his knowledge of the medical data concerning the effect of radiation justifies his appointment...
Joseph A. Califano, secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), has not yet made a decision about the new requirements, although he was to announce his decision April 1. Califano may submit the legislation to Congress...