Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native support in Italian East Boston, and her and Hick's extremist tack may have seen its heyday. Palladino, at least, will probably...
Four one-hour debates were held, in Chicago, Washington, then an innovative split-screen appearance with Nixon in Los Angeles and Kennedy in New York City, and a final joint presentation from New York...
...scientists speculate that because the factory males are smaller and differently colored, the wild females may be finding them less attractive. In any case, future factory-bred males may be more formidable sexual competitors. The Texas factory and a large new breeding plant formally opened last month under a joint U.S.-Mexican commission in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, are now producing a more aggressive fly strain, tagged 009. Explains a commission spokesman: "He is a macho Mexican fly, and factory breeding should not dilute his sex drive...
Until now, the 270,000 participants in the demonstration project-a joint effort of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society-automatically received annual mammograms, along with a manual examination of the breasts and thermograms (tumor-detecting heat pictures). But under the new policy, mammograms will be restricted, until further studies are completed, to women 50 and above-an age group known to have profited from them-and others who have a greater than ordinary risk of breast cancer: women who have a family history of the disease, have lumps or pains in their chests or have reached...
...evidence so far runs against Long. The Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, which provides technical information on tax legislation to both House and Senate, claimed at one point in the debate that if all the provisions in the Senate bill became law, the Treasury would gain only $100 million in taxes in fiscal 1977. By 1978 it would lose $900 million, and the loss would rise to $2.8 billion by 1981. The biggest revenue losers would be some of the more politically popular items. Among them...