Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shattering cause mind you (Ear is not a crusader), but just important enough to let you know that Eat's heart (or ear trumpet) is in the right place. "Sometimes I get a little insulted for my sex." she says. So there was the injustice that popped up at HEW. "The Ladies' Locker Room is a wee one-third the size of the Men's Locker 'Room." Califano concocted a solution. "The Gap is closing, Earwigs. (Did everyone notice that Friday, C&P's Weather Lady was a man?)" Not a big step, but we all have to start somewhere...
When Jones helped a rally for Rosalynn Carter in San Francisco by busing in 600 loud supporters, he was rewarded with a "Dear Jim" thank-you note hand written on White House stationery. Jones claimed to have received appreciative letters from Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson, and HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, among others...
...fiscal 1979: Medicare, which will spend $29 billion; and Medicaid, with outlays of $12 billion. But now OMB is preparing a set of proposals for Congress that would tighten requirements for entering these programs. Such changes, OMB estimates, would save as much as $1 billion in fiscal 1980. HEW, which has learned that it must absorb one-third of the overall budget cut, cannot possibly accomplish that without changes in basic programs...
...letter to HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, Wolfe asked for an immediate ban on the sale of the widely prescribed pain reliever propoxyphene, best known as Darvon. He claimed not only that Darvon is an ineffective painkiller, but also that in excessive doses it produces a euphoric high, which he says, "makes it attractive as a drug of abuse. This is tantamount to legalized dope." Further, said Wolfe, Darvon-related deaths in the U.S. have been increasing, rising in major cities to about 600 last year and making the compound "the deadliest prescription drug in the United States." Eli Lilly...
...average person would have to take 30 large-size Darvon capsules at one time (the usual dose is one every four hours) to cause death, 15 if he were intoxicated. Further, the drug is a controlled substance?a prescription is good for only five refills within six months. (If HEW will not ban Darvon, Wolfe wants the drug reclassified so that prescriptions cannot be refilled...