Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forgotten about what the chemicals were originally added to preserve. We have been weaned on Instant Breakfast, raised on Tastycakes and Big Macs, and disciplined by the threat of "no dimes for a Dairy Queen." Our "gourmet" restaurants serve prepackaged, precooked Lobster Thermidor. Our cookbooks are compendiums of corporate-test-kitchen press releases. And the average sugar consumption in America--mostly of the refined, characterless variety--is one-third of a pound per day per American, which is more of this "poor nutrient," say the Hesses, than any society in history has ever consumed. And the reason? "Americans are starved...
Well, the Harvard crews are not going to be able to cruise into reading period this year. In the worst tradition of Chem 20, a test has been thrown at them this weekend, one that will determine a large part of their final grades...
...except my daughter. She calls me asshole." And you're already giggling, if only inwardly. A burly native of South Boston who has earned a name as one of the best narcotics lawyers in the business, Oteri began involving himself in drug law liberalization efforts and drug-related test cases almost 20 years ago when the job was not only unpopular but also dangerous. His downtown Boston office sums up his success at one glance: the sauna bath, the mirror-lined universal gym and the fully equipped kitchen, not to mention the receptionist. A member of the board of directors...
Sensing that the time was ripe for action in the Bay State last winter, Oteri assumed responsibility for directing NORML's lobbying efforts on Beacon Hill. The decriminalization issue had benefited from a recent Oteri test case on cocaine. In a Roxbury Court last fall, Judge Elwood McKinney ruled that cocaine prohibition in its present form was unconstitutional. According to some observes, the cocaine controversy has drawn attention away from decriminalization, giving both politicians and drug-oriented interest groups more room in which to maneuver...
...testimony of Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus, was designed to affect the politicians in another way. Farnsworth had changed positions on decriminalization completely. Having testified against marijuana for the prosecution in a 1967 test case in Boston, Farnsworth vice-chaired the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse established during the Nixon administration. A blue-ribbon group of establishment notables, the commission spent millions of dollars in extensive analysis and published its findings in March 1972 in Marijuana: Signal of Misunderstanding. It was a book that former President Nixon did not care to read. Oteri notes...