Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...river that used to surge into the Gulf of California, depositing ruddy-colored silt that fanned out into a broad delta of new land at its mouth, hardly ever makes it to the sea anymore. The once mighty Colorado fizzles into a trickle, its last traces evaporating in the heat of the Mexican desert...
...time of shortage is now under attack. On the one hand, critics are pointing out the often wasteful uses of water employed by Western farmers: the practice of irrigating fields by flooding them, thus allowing much of the water to run off the fields or bake off in the heat; the production of "thirsty" crops like rice and cotton in areas only inches of water away from being desert...
...days and many headlines later, the company, based in Cincinnati, agreed to remove the term fresh from its label. Soon after, executives at Ragu Foods of Trumbull, Conn., consented to drop the offending word from their Ragu Fresh Italian pasta sauces, which, like many other prepared sauces, are heat processed. In May the FDA ordered that the "no-cholesterol" claim be removed from Best Foods' Mazola Corn Oil and HeartBeat Canola Oil, made by Great Foods of America. Like all plant oils, these products never contained cholesterol...
...July 1985 the CNTS finally decided to heat treat all blood products and to institute national testing of donated blood. But for the next three months, the agency continued to sell the tainted stock to hemophiliacs without warning them of the risk. That policy, which was approved by the Ministry of Health and the French Association of Hemophiliacs, was reportedly intended to ward off a blood shortage. But critics allege that the CNTS was trying to avoid the cost of purchasing heat-treated blood from foreign labs. National pride may have also played a role: with a bitter rivalry raging...
...competition for these docile consumers is growing far tougher. Powerful new players are entering the business, and the result is some welcome relief for the consumer. Card issuers are changing the rules as they go, cutting prices, waiving fees and offering an inventive array of new services. "The heat is on in the credit-card industry," says Robert McKinley, publisher of Bankcard Update, an industry newsletter. "Nonbanks are finally putting pressure on the banks to lower their rates...