Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...areas. They have since suffered many of the same symptoms as the Vietnamese. Veterans describe eating in sprayed areas, and climbing through jungles dripping with the herbicide. Their children have the same birth defects as the Vietnamese children and the veterans themselves complained of recurring dizziness and nausea, weight loss and skin disease--other common symptoms of dioxin poisoning...
Results of experiments conducted by American scientists corroborate the herbicide's human effects. The experiments have produced death, cancer, liver tumors, birth defects, nervous disorders, loss of sexual drive, and spontaneous abortions in laboratory. While scientists agree that the evidence is not yet conclusive, one study seems to bear out claims that dioxin is harmful to human beings. A scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. James Allen, conducted a series of tests on rhesus monkeys, the animal most like humans in chemical sensitivity. He found that dioxin administered over a period of months in dosages...
...loss left the Dodgers eight games ahead of Cincinnati and nine and one half in front of San Francisco as the Reds crushed the Giants, 7-1, yesterday...
...victory raised Eckersley's record to 17-8, 4-1 against New York this year. The loss, hung on Yankee Jim Beattie, dropped his record to 5-8, 1-3 against Boston...
...least now there's a chance for a real race. The Sox are 2 1/2 back with 14 games to play. And don't forget the hot-hitting Brewers, just 5 1/2 back despite yesterday's 4-3 loss to the Twins...