Word: swine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of diseases that have been troublesome to Americans lately, swine flu ranks somewhere below spring fever. Only three cases have been discovered since the flu-related death last year of a soldier at Fort Dix, N.J., and none was fatal. In fact, the massive swine flu vaccine program proved to be more of a threat than the disease: it has been implicated in nearly 400 cases of a little-understood, usually temporary paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome. Yet last week, while acknowledging the risks, federal authorities ordered a partial resumption of the on-again, off-again swine flu program...
...with Guellal; a second home, now rented by LaBelle and Bert Lance, director of Carter's Office of Management and Budget; and a summer house with a pool. She laughs at Washington's formality ("Do you believe those invitations that come six weeks ahead? You might have swine flu by the time the day rolls around!") and likes to entertain in blue jeans...
Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control has had a bad press lately. As the Government's front-line fighters against epidemic disease, the CDC's dedicated scientists had to take much of the blame, justly or not, for the collapse of the nationwide swine flu program. Equally embarrassing, they were unable to identify the mysterious fever that killed 29 people and hospitalized scores of others after an American Legion convention in Philadelphia last summer...
...tapes was his downfall, and Gerald Ford's last grand gesture, proposing statehood for Puerto Rico, was his last blunder. Ford had an enthusiasm for drives and campaigns with the flair of Chamber of Commerce resolutions. And, whether impeaching Earl Warren, Whipping Inflation Now, or inoculating every American for swine flu, they tended to fizzle out quickly. Still, when he announced during a skiing trip at Vail that he would propose legislation to make Puerto Rico the 51st state, he started the island...
...company holds assets of $300 million in rubber plantations and palm-oil industries on the Malay peninsula, yet it keeps its headquarters in Singapore and is registered in London. For years it had a reputation for mistreating and underpaying its workers, who bitterly dubbed the firm "Swine Bobby" (slang for pig feed) or "Slime Darby...