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Word: scares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, the market for such products was fed by a scattering of faddists, who patronized a handful of "health food" shops. But that was before the back-to-nature spirit roused the young, and much of the rest of the nation was shaken by the cranberry scare, the mercury-in-tuna scare and the cyclamate scare. Says Marshall Ackerman, executive vice president of Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pa., which publishes books and magazines about the movement: "I've been in this business for 16 years, and nothing happened for the first 13. Since then it's become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: The Profitable Earth | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Jolted into Action. Infelisi spent four months planning the operation. His aim: to jolt the government into taking corrective action or to scare the institutions themselves into making reforms. The young D.A. went along on three of the raids. After reading police reports on the 283 others, he concluded: "Seventy-five percent of these places should be closed at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nobody's Children | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...functions to discharge foreign wastes," declared Masuo Araki, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, in a recent speech that startled his audience. "We must have the spirit to eat contaminated rice." But in Nagano City, the owner of a paint factory was so depressed over the cadmium scare that he committed suicide. "I would like to stop using cadmium," he said in a farewell note, "but I cannot. I am assuming full responsibility and choosing death." Some U.S. scientists now rank cadmium ahead of lead as a dangerous pollutant. It is a prime candidate for a list of toxic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: And Now, Cadmium | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...prison is married life in a poor, dull town. Belle, as the author calls herself, was born angry. Her adored father warned: "Beware of cross women." Her mother, already disappointed at the girl's plainness, added, "You will scare the boys if you look like that." But Belle quickly finds herself a breezy chap named George Ames, who looks like her father. Somehow she assumes George shares her unformed aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Locked in a Star | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...countries have threatened to cut their customers off without a drop, thus depriving Western Europe of 85% of its oil, Japan of 91% and the U.S. of 18%. Last week talks between the companies and six Persian Gulf members of OPEC broke down, precipitating the most serious international oil scare in years. Western government and oil-company officials nervously pored over refinery records, maps of tanker routes and intelligence reports from their agents afield to determine how much oil they had on hand -and where they could get more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Desert Foxes | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

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