Word: infantability
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Long-winded as well as angry in tone, the report occasionally strikes out with rhetorical inaccuracy-as when it seems to put most of the blame on the FDA for the fact that the American infant-mortality rate, once fifth lowest in the world, is now 13th lowest. But many of its points are soundly made. While placing a large share of the blame on practices of the food industry, Nader's Raiders hit hard at the FDA for frittering away its limited resources on relatively harmless quacks while letting major corporations go virtually unregulated. They note that...
...protect the rights of mothers and children. To develop the network of maternity homes, creches and infant classes...
...over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence, an awareness of the constant surprise of life, which one rarely finds in a man so old; but he also seems possessed of a certain embryonic fragility. Somehow, I had the impression that I might shatter him if I breathed...
...income ($4.800). Though Chicago has 80 hospitals, most blacks are sent to the old Cook County Hospital, where they wait an average two hours to be seen, pay $100 a day for beds or are crowded into the hospital's 50-year-old ward. In black ghettos, the infant mortality rate from influenza and pneumonia is 9.8 per 100,000, compared with 4.4 in white poverty areas and 2.6 for all whites...
...Infant Mortality first 28 days...