Word: retarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have written a fable about a skunk who was psychoanalyzed to lose his stench, or about a hare who preached the dictatorship of hares . .. When art begins to ape science it becomes exactly that-an ape. It appears just as ridiculous when it tries with its limited powers to retard or push forward the wheels of history...
...Bauer also promotes the ideal of comparative advantage, the concept that nations should produce what they can make most cheaply. For most poor nations this means exporting raw materials and agricultural products. Bauer deems the idea of Third World industrialization inefficient and declares that it is "more likely to retard economic development than to promote...
...will promote further erosion of family values and of the place of the homemaker in society. However, both of these "traditional' concepts have taken such a beating over the last couple of decades that nothing Washington can do, short of totalitarian enforcement of morals, will either accelerate or retard this sad process...
Deukmejian has also vowed to repeal some measures designed to protect consumers and the environment, contending that they retard business growth. But the legislature will oppose such plans. Another big problem for Deukmejian: five of the six elected officials in his administration are Democrats...
...Procardia letter is not the only example of an FDA corrective attack on drug-advertising practices. Last June the agency ordered Eli Lilly and Co. to revise the press kit it had prepared on Oraflex, an arthritis medication. The kit contained releases implying that the drug could retard the course of arthritis, a claim based on inconclusive animal studies. Lilly had taken the bold course of promoting its product directly to the consumer, and the misleading claim was trumpeted in newspapers and on television. The result was an enormous demand: more than $6 million in sales for Oraflex...