Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the talks Carter will have at his side only Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal; the other leaders will also be limited to their foreign and finance ministers. Other aides, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, will wait in an adjoining room. When the particular expertise of one of them is needed, the head of state will push a button by his chair. A red light will flash in the subordinates' area on a board numbered 1 through 8, indicating which leader needs assistance...
Vitamin Pills. Receiving prenatal care at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital in late 1951 and early 1952, the women were given unmarked tablets as part of a study conducted by the late Dr. William Dieckmann. Though Dieckmann's tests actually showed the estrogenic hormone to be of no particular value in combatting miscarriages, DES continued to be prescribed until the FDA notice. Mink claims she was told that the pills were vitamins, and was not officially notified of the DES project by Chicago authorities until February 1976. She then rushed her daughter Gwendolyn, 23, to a doctor and discovered...
...young women whose mothers took DES have developed the adenosis formation, so far fewer than 200 of them are known to be suffering from the cancer. One of the first legal complications for most victims in suing, however, is the difficulty in linking an individual pill user with a particular drug company. The drug was never patented, but was sold under its generic name by a number of different companies. Because pharmacy and physician records cannot be located after so many years, it is impossible in many cases to pinpoint liability...
Still, physical differences do exist: Orientals are generally smaller than Caucasians (and, incidentally, better gymnasts for it); certain diseases have been shown to be genetically linked to particular groups and races-Tay-Sachs disease among Jews and sickle-cell anemia among blacks. The shapes of eyes and noses vary as widely among the races as do skin colors...
...just as many talented white performers with great speed or jumping ability as I did blacks. Yet in professional football, there seems to be an imbalance. For the white athlete, the alternatives have obviously been greater. He doesn't have to channel all of his energies into one particular area...