Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normally chases after false corporate advertising claims, such as Carter's Little Liver Pills' promised relief from liver ailments or Listerine's guarantee that it helps fight colds. But last week the FTC forced the U.S. Treasury Department to change the ads it uses to promote bonds. Previously it had emphasized the interest earned and claimed that bonds were a "good investment." The new ads will stress that through plans like payroll deductions, bonds can be a good method of forced regular saving...
Bill Dixon, a tall, sandy-haired Carter man who ran the president's Wisconsin campaign four years ago, now sits atop the convention throne. It's his party and the way things are going, it looks like he'll be running short of chopped liver, cole slaw and drink mixers long before the networks sign off from their play-by-play coverage of "Convention...
...past two years, one report after another has told harrowing tales of noxious odors leaking into homes, of sinister-colored sludge seeping into basements, of children playing in potholes of pollutants and, worst of all, of abnormally high rates of miscarriages and birth defects, of nerve, respiratory, liver and kidney disorders and of assorted cancers among people of Love Canal...
...left leg. Tito at first appeared to make a strong recovery from these operations, which he had been given only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. In February, however, he suffered a relapse. A "weakening of the heart" was followed by an array of other ailments: kidney failure, liver damage, internal hemorrhaging, pneumonia, infection and high fever. Tito nonetheless managed to hang on, with the help of kidney dialysis, an external pacemaker and an experimental American antibiotic called Moxalactam. Two weeks ago, he sank into a coma that signaled the onset of the final crisis...
Brown knows his subject. As a reporter for the Niagara Gazette, he broke the story of the Love Canal disaster, revealing how chemicals buried in an abandoned waterway were leaking into homes and were suspected of causing health problems, from respiratory and liver ailments to birth defects...