Word: nils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Medical Association continues its unjustified effort to downgrade vitamin C [March 24]. The effectiveness of vitamin C against the common cold is not nil, as stated by the A.M.A. Instead, every one of the twelve controlled studies that have been carried out in which subjects were exposed to cold viruses by contact with other people and in which some subjects regularly received the vitamin C, an average of 1,000 mg. per day, and others received an inactive tablet, gave the result that the vitamin-C subjects had less illness than the controls. The average amount of decreased illness...
...placebo under the same circumstances. If a volunteer showed signs of coming down with a cold, the dosage of pills -whether vitamin C or placebo-was increased by three grams per day. N.I.H. researchers report that the effects of the vitamin on the number of colds "seem to be nil" and the effects on severity of the colds are clinically insignificant. In the second Journal report, researchers at the University of Chicago say that after a review of various studies of vitamin C conducted from 1939 to 1973, there is little convincing evidence of the vitamin's effectiveness...
...problems of inflation have been defeated...the danger of any recession is nil." --Gerald R. Ford...
Fairbank begins with a stunningly impressive analysis, written in 1946, on the prospects for democracy in China at that time. They were nil, he concluded, not only because the Communists were more vigorous and popular than the American-backed Kuomintang, but also because "the inertia of tradition" did not permit Western-style solutions in China. Fairbank was of course right, and since that essay-as textbook writer, as target of the McCarthy campaign, as a mover and shaker in the field of Asian studies in the U.S.-he has stuck to his main theme. The great Confucian system of government...
That night Channel Five reported that the chance of another truckers' strike was nil...