Word: reuel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the conclusions of the CDC report are "inferential," concedes Epidemiologist Reuel Stallones of the University of Texas, who contributed to a 1980 report from the National Academy of Sciences that found the human health hazards of antibiotic feeds "neither proven nor dis-proven." But, he adds, "this is the best evidence I've seen up to this time that human illness is somehow linked to the use of antibiotics in animals for growth promotion. This study draws the net much tighter around the issue, but it is still a net, not a rope.'' -By Anastasia Toufexis...
...sociologist as moralist peaked in the late '40s and '50s. Americans who had endured the pangs of the Depression and wartime rationing enjoyed an unprecedented feast of goods and services. Focusing on the problems of affluence more than on its benefits, Scholars David Riesman, Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer published The Lonely Crowd. More lightly credentialed observers got into the act. Books such as The Organization Man, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Status Seekers became bestsellers to a "we" generation confused about keeping up with the Joneses...