Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spend $500 million on 10 to 15 years of tests--as pharmaceutical firms typically do to check out new medications. Unlike drugs, most herbal preparations cannot be patented, so the testing company would not be rewarded for its efforts. The FDA, meanwhile, would have to prove that a supplement is unsafe before yanking it off the market, yet it has no authority to test nutritional supplements. "The result is that there are a lot of products on the market that little is known about," says FDA deputy commissioner for policy William Schultz...
...Amount Starr spent on five private investigators to supplement FBI evidence...
Even more telling is the jump in the number of federal tax returns from New Mexico claiming the earned income tax credit. That is the credit intended to supplement the income of the working poor. Between 1989 and 1992, the number of such returns went up 14%, from 112,334 to 127,900. But between 1993 and 1996, it climbed twice as fast, shooting up 31%, from...
...will allow kava manufacturers to promote their product only in a general way, advertising it as a supplement without citing any specific medical benefits. Until formal studies are conducted, those restrictions will stand. Even without a government green light, however, kava will probably remain popular, sold as an antianxiety herb that dare not call itself that. "People like the idea of feeling mellow but staying alert," says Blumenthal. "That's what kava does." The question is, At what cost...
...choreography. The audience was overwhelmed by the sheer strength of movement and the intensity of the combinations, both enhanced by the prowess of the Conservatory dancers. Each solo was marked by particular nuances: expansive arm movements, sweeping lunges, and rhythmic patterns of stomping. No musical accompaniment was necessary to supplement the piece's climaxes in mood, which were matched by the heaving chests and abrupt breaths of the powerful dancers. Limon's Native American style of choreography created an otherworldly ambiance and spiritual under-toning, immersing the audience in its animalistic quality of dance...