Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of this hostility-and the fact that the majority of top U.S. humorists are Jewish-Jews figure prominently among the dark breed that has been operating as "black humorists," an easily applied label that sticks to those who examine the megaton-megalopolis age and find it funny only in a fearsome way. In Catch-22, now a classic of its genre, Joseph Heller presents an American pilot who would bomb his country's bases for "cost"plus 6%." In Stem, Bruce Jay Friedman deflates the American concept of the hero by making his anti-hero a round-shouldered...
...most part, realistic look at the Southern Republicans. But when it turns to an analysis of the race issue a note of uncertainty creeps in and the most prickly problem of all--how any party can manage to bring conservative white Southerners and Negroes together under a single label -- gets only a glossing-over...
...among many available drugs, all of which have some degree of danger. His opponents now accuse him of betraying the public interest in favor of protecting the pharmaceutical manufacturers. Some recent examples of action, inaction and disputed decisions: ≫ SULFAS. FDA last week announced that it was requiring new labeling on two long-acting sulfa drugs marketed by three firms,* "to warn against rare cases of a severe and sometimes fatal side effect," a blistering and ulceration known as the Stevens-Johnson syndrome. There have been 81 reported U.S. cases "associated" with the drugs, with 16 deaths, eleven among children...
...women, though the company does not specifically recommend it for them. European doctors said that some women who took the pills later bore malformed babies. Last January, Dr. Sadusk agreed that pregnant women should not take these drugs, then promptly reversed himself. Not until October did he approve a label warning: "Not for use by women who are pregnant or who may possibly become pregnant"-even though he is not convinced that they are effective against nausea...
...CHLORAMPHENICOL. For 15 years FDA has struggled with the problem of how to label and whether to restrict the use of this antibiotic (Parke, Davis' Chloromycetin). It is unquestionably the best drug against half a dozen uncommon diseases and a few medical conditions that should be treated in hospitals. But it is often prescribed to avert the aftereffects of a common cold, for which it is useless and also dangerous, because it may cause death from anemia...