Word: highes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation of their own moshavim, the model agricultural cooperatives that have been especially successful in the northern Sinai. But Israeli government officials have long insisted that the tribesmen are needed as a labor force for new industries that are planned for the Negev. Moreover, the well-equipped, high production moshavim require large tracts and expensive irrigation. And, as one senior official bluntly told TIME's Lesley Hazleton, "I'm not giving good Jewish land and water to Arabs...
...vigor of their message has tended to obscure the fact that the "diet-heart hypothesis," as the cholesterol link with coronary disease is known, remains a theory and the subject of heated debate. True, studies have established that high cholesterol levels in the blood are associated with increased heart disease. But, admits Dr. Basil Rifkind, chief of the lipid metabolism branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, "what's missing is the proof that you can prevent heart disease by reducing cholesterol...
...Catherine Fabricant and colleagues are working with a herpes virus that produces in chickens a variety of tumors known as Marek's disease. The scientists found that it also causes atherosclerotic lesions in heart arteries. But, intriguingly, virustree chickens do not develop heart disease even when fed a high cholesterol diet. Fabricant speculates that something similar may happen in humans as well...
...Administration is sure to cite the high earnings in its campaign to get Congress to pass a tax on the "windfall" profits the companies stand to receive under Carter's plan to decontrol the price of domestically produced oil Carter last week urged Americans to "let their voices be heard" against "an oil lobby working quietly" against the tax. While the public fumes at the big profits, most experts have defended the high earnings claiming that they finance further exoration. In any case, the profits boom is temporary: soon demand will come ore into line with supply, prices will...
Financially, it is more attractive to build cars in the U.S. than to import them from West Germany; because of the high wages and constantly climbing value of the German mark relative to the dollar, the total hourly labor costs amount to about $13.60 in Germany, vs. only $9 at the Pennsylvania factory...