Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the organism, which affected more than 20 people who ate seafood newburg at Cabot and Whitman Halls, may be a rare variety of salmonella. "If a common strain of bacterium reacts in a common way it takes about 48 hours to identify; if less common, it takes longer," he said...
University Health Services last week hired Wilfred B. Krabek, retired UHS inspector, as a special consultant to try to identify the still-undetermined strain of bacterium responsible for the March 27 South House food poisoning...
...further peace moves but worries that making a separate deal with Israel would seemingly isolate him from the Syrians and the Palestinians. Syrian President Hafez Assad and the P.L.O. have both been putting pressure on Sadat to maintain a unified Arab front, which lately has shown some signs of strain. Two weeks ago the Palestinians publicly announced that they were sending a delegation of second-ranking P.L.O. executives to Cairo to discuss the Kissinger negotiations with Sadat. In a sharp rebuff, Sadat said that he would discuss such matters only with the P.L.O. leadership (meaning Arafat); the delegation never arrived...
...just lost his job slammed his baby against a wall until it lost consciousness. An Atlanta real estate agent, under severe stress when his commissions dropped drastically, lost his temper and beat his five-year-old daughter so severely she had to be hospitalized. Such incidents suggest that economic strain is an increasingly important factor in child abuse. Says Jerry White, director of protection services for the Georgia human resources department: "It's a consequence of the economic crisis that people do not think about...
...child an hour or two a day is exposed to him for hours at a time," says Dr. Henry C. Kempe, director of the National Center. The fact that so many mothers now live with a man other than the child's father causes extra strain as well, says Kempe, especially when "the boy friend is out of work, the kid is bugging him, he's not the father and he hates...