Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple, direct, accurate and visible information" on each container about the product's nature and quantity, 2) prohibit use of "deceptively shaped boxes, misleading pictures, confusing or meaningless adjectives, inappropriate size or quantity markings," 3) outlaw promotional devices "that promise nonexistent savings," and 4) institute "reasonable and appropriate weight standards to facilitate comparative shopping." Though pigeonholed since 1963, the bill is given a good chance of passage in an election year...
Griffith, who also holds the welter-weight crown, was ten pounds lighter and nine years younger, and Tiger simply could not stay with the faster man. Although Tiger jolted Griffith more than once, he failed to follow up his punches...
...light weight crews are here on the Charles today for a race against M.I.T. and Dartmouth, and the Crimson should have a fairly easy time of it. Races start...
...Boston symposium on mental retardation convened by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. There is a growing body of evidence that mental retardation is sometimes the result of malnutrition, and in the case of premature babies, who by definition have not been nourished up to a normal birth weight, the effects may be seen even in as well-fed a society as the U.S. Elsewhere, three-fourths of the world's billion children are rated as undernourished, with horrendous implications for retardation of mental development...
This failure, Dr. Cravioto suggested, may be related to the fact that a baby's brain grows fastest at birth and shortly afterward, gaining weight at the rate of about an ounce every two weeks. Reporting similar findings in laboratory animals, the University of London's Dr. John Dobbing said that underfeeding of newborn rats and pigs interferes with the growth of fatty, myelin sheaths around nerve fibers. And this brain damage cannot be fully repaired by normal feeding in later life...