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...many cooks threaten to spoil the farm bill...
Says Charles Althafer, 49, of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "Most folks are turned off by the disease of the month, by frightening reports on PCB and Love Canal. It makes them want to go home and suck their thumbs." Disaster seems to threaten through disease or radiation or some vague Apocalypse Now that everyone fears but cannot give a face to. Some Americans still prepare for anarchy by retreating to the hills with automatic weapons, radiation detectors and the Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans for Physical Fitness; a few have taken to storing freeze-dried survival...
...time he was jogging, I began Jazzercise. I finally found a way to compete physically with men that doesn't threaten them." She adds, "I feel that I am any man's equal...
...consulting firm has found defects in the electrical and ventilation systems serious enough, in its judgment, to threaten the plant's ability to win an operating license...
This year's casualty totals threaten to rise no higher than the peaks of the ten-year period between 1957 and 1967, which began with a mild recession under Dwight Eisenhower, encompassed John F. Kennedy's famous expansionary tax cut in 1964, and ended just as the Lyndon Johnson boom years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came...