Word: saccharine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court's ruling on the Bakke case seems to say that unadulterated race in quotas is unlawful but a dab of color mixed with other considerations is acceptable. It is like saying that saccharin is unacceptable in meeting the need for a sweetener but all right if mixed with other ingredients...
...well-publicized warnings against smoking, he stopped inhaling three packs of cigarettes a day. Instead, he began eating four daily meals and ballooned. Now on a diet, backed by a 45-min. noon-hour jog around the Mall, he has ignored his own department's cautions about saccharin. He often drinks Tab at lunch. And he is a shade sensitive about the tendency of cartoonists to exaggerate his double chin...
...sign that the public is rebelling against these costly and cumbersome regulations is that they are being spoofed in that most popular graphic art form, the comic strips. Weidenbaum's walls are adorned with comics and editorial cartoons roasting everything from the ban against saccharin to the rising Matterhorn of forms to be filled out. In one strip, a weary Santa Claus complains about "all the environmental impact statements I gotta file for these flying reindeer...
...your article "Sweet Risk?" [March 13], I found Bernard Cohen's calculations impressive-but not the suggestion that we can equate the cancer risk from using saccharin with an average reduction in life expectancy of two days...
...suggest willpower as an alternative to sugar and saccharin...