Word: infants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennsylvania health department survey of all pregnant women and their offspring within a ten-mile radius of the plant, to determine any increase in miscarriages, premature births or infant abnormalities and early deaths. The hope: to confirm predictions that no such ill effects are likely...
November seemed to be the month for boycotts. A second one involving the Nestles Corporation and its promotion of infant formula in Third World countries inspired Dean Rosovsky to propose asking the Faculty to discuss a possible University policy on boycotts...
...name Nestle usually evokes sweet associations--chocolate bars, powdered flavorings for milk and instant soups. But the Nestle Corporation's role in the production and marketing of infant formulas in the Third World is less well known. Nor do many students realize the towels they use after sports practices or the sheets they collapse in at University Health Services are products of J.P. Stevens, a company repeatedly cited for unfair labor practices. These company practices--and the resulting charges of opportunism and exploitation--surfaced as major issues this year at Harvard...
Supporters of the boycott point to a series of charges of unfair labor and marketing practices levelled against the two companies. Health officials' and journalists' reports say that Third World mothers, lured by advertising promising healthier babies, used the Nestle's infant formula instead of breast-feeding their children. Critics of Nestle charge that millions of babies die or grow up malnourished because the mothers dilute the formula--often with unsanitary water--making it harmful or, at the least, less nutritious...
...unstable regimes, have been propelled to the forefront of world economic, financial and strategic affairs. Variously smooth and snappish, OPEC'S chiefs contend that they are merely embellishing the rules of the game as taught by the oil majors. From the moment that John D. Rockefeller organized the infant U.S. petroleum industry into a producers' cartel to maintain stable and profitable prices, companies have employed one device after another to prevent price-disrupting swings between glut and shortage...