Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller has moved into Washington with much command and in some two months he has brought to the board a new flexibility and crispness. Says one staffer: "We can't keep up with him. He's an electric mosquito." The former Textron Inc. chairman roams the Fed's cold marble halls at a slow jogger's pace, thrusting out his hand to someone he does not know and saying, "Hi, I'm Bill Miller." He signs memos "Bill," calls almost everyone at the Federal Reserve by his first name, and works in shirtsleeves...
...harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval: ''I don't know whether to start this piece with an American battleship dashing round the Horn in wartime, a biologist slicing the salivary gland of a female mosquito, a volcanic eruption killing 30,000 people . . . or the vote of the United States Senate last week on the Panama Canal...
...Largo of Bogart and Bacall. They hacked their own roads through the mosquito-ridden mangrove, sealed them off with padlocked gates, and even staked out a sheriffs substation with a walkie-talkie lookout to learn of patrols. But lately the police have regained the initiative...
...Organization (a branch of WHO), UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development had cooperated with national governments in financing a massive extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale that the oily DDT residue would knock out any disease-carrying mosquito that alighted there.* The campaign succeeded so well that malaria was reduced in many countries to a minor public-health problem. Similar success...
...effort to stem the tide of new cases, health authorities are now using more of other insecticides, such as Malathion and propoxur to kill DDT-resistant mosquitoes-but the insects are already showing signs of developing resistance to the newer chemicals. Thus the most practical response now to malaria's new challenge, says Dr. Robert Kaiser, of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, is a return to the pre-DDT approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser...