Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another study device, born just this January, involves inscribing sugar packets with Chinese restaurant-style fortunes. I pulled "Kiss the Magna Goodbye" the other day and was reminded of a September 1981 essay by Timothy Foote '49. Foote turned a brief visit to the Yard into an article for Esquire entitled "The Trouble With Harvard" The essay mournfully related his "nagging sense that many of the students should have gone someplace else...
...Foote was wrong. Despite apocalyptic sugar packets and protestations of psychic torture, most students eventually admit that they like it here. A Crimson poll conducted for last June's special Commencement Issue, and thus never seen by most current readers, found that nine out of 10 members of the class of 1982 would choose Harvard again, given another chance as an undergraduate. Eighty-three percent said they would send their children here (89 percent among minorities), and three out of four people said the College had satisfied them academically. The poll found considerable disappointment over the handling of women...
...believes that the company will spring more surprises in the future. He thinks, for example, that P & G is working on a lowfat, low-calorie, low-cholesterol cookie that will taste good without causing tooth decay. For the moment, though, P & G will be urging Americans to eat sugar-filled Duncan Hines cookies-and brush regularly with its Crest toothpaste...
...they will be blamed if the defendant in abuse cases, often a parent or family friend, is convicted and punished. Says Carol Schrier, director of the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia: "We emphasize that the judge or jury makes the decision." Experts are careful, however, not to sugar-coat the potential outcome. "If it's going to involve the possible jailing of a parent, I think they have a right to know that," says Patty Coleman, a Philadelphia psychiatric social worker...
...protectionism to stem the flow of imports from the Third World (see ESSAY). Demand for the developing nations' products, mainly raw materials, slumped. As a consequence, between 1980 and today, world commodity prices, excluding oil, have fallen by 35% to the lowest real levels in three decades. Sugar, a principal Brazilian export, dropped from $495 to $120 per ton; Zambia's copper price plunged from 950 per Ib. to 690. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere put it plainly: to buy a seven-ton truck in 1981, his country had to produce four times as much cotton...