Word: slope
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pushing for a nationwide ban on % the sale of over-the-counter capsules. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Washington-based Health Research Group, argues that such a ban "would be a shortsighted solution to a terrorist threat." FDA Commissioner Dr. Frank Young concurs: "You are on a slippery slope when you allow a group of terrorists to start driving products off the market." The FDA, Young says, is not now considering any ban on capsules...
Three of the new beefs are from crossbred animals. Brae comes from a conventional breed (Black Angus), but the herds are fed differently than most cattle. Developed by Fred Grant, a former banker, and named for his farm Windabrae (Scottish for windy slope), these cattle graze on grass for the first two years of life and are then fed a diet of high-quality silage and beer. Grant uses no growth hormones or other chemicals, and the meat contains 84% less fat and 43% fewer calories than regular beef. Cuts ordered by TIME from the Brae Beef Shop in Stamford...
...epic oil plunge of the 1980s started out slowly and a bit remotely. To most people, it was just a downward-sloping diagram on the financial page, an abstract reminder of the mysterious world of desert oil wells, filthy-rich Arabs and the irritating antics of OPEC. But suddenly oil's new situation is hitting home with the wallop of a 42-gal. oil barrel dropped on the front porch. Last week consumers, businessmen and traders around the world watched in awe as the price of crude dipped below $10 per bbl. for the first time in almost a decade...
...Carmel-by-the-Sea. So are the sedans and station wagons, tour buses and minivans, disgorging hordes of tourists to take in the jade-tinted surf and the sweeping Monterey cypress trees. But a new attraction is luring the curious to this tidy village that clings to a slope above Monterey Bay, some 120 miles down the coast from San Francisco, one far more riveting than the scenery. The big draw is, of all things, a municipal election...
Some raised concerns about the so-called slippery slope toward wholesale euthanasia. Said Dr. Mark Siegler, director of the Center of Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago: "We start off with dispatching the terminally ill and the hopelessly comatose, and then perhaps our guidelines might be extended to the severely senile, the very old and decrepit and maybe even young, profoundly retarded children." Adding to such worries is the current era of medical cost cutting. "That's what this is all about, to get rid of people who are a burden to their families and the state," warned...