Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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November seemed to be the month for boycotts. A second one involving the Nestles Corporation and its promotion of infant formula in Third World countries inspired Dean Rosovsky to propose asking the Faculty to discuss a possible University policy on boycotts...
...Engelhard's name is prominently and honorably displayed in the library, the answer is yes. If you ask if the books of Harvard carry the original name of Engelhard, the answer is yes. But if you ask if Harvard will force anyone to recite any particular formula as a name, the answer is no, as it would always...
Supporters of the boycott point to a series of charges of unfair labor and marketing practices levelled against the two companies. Health officials' and journalists' reports say that Third World mothers, lured by advertising promising healthier babies, used the Nestle's infant formula instead of breast-feeding their children. Critics of Nestle charge that millions of babies die or grow up malnourished because the mothers dilute the formula--often with unsanitary water--making it harmful or, at the least, less nutritious...
...executive committee formula is one that has been used with success settling similar problems in departments." Keller said. She cited actions in the Astronomy and Visual and Environmental Studies Departments over the past ten years as examples...
Once the mandatory controls are in effect, the Government would have the power to require that the fees received by hospitals from their bed patients be limited by a complex formula based on general inflation, local wage levels and each hospital's efficiency. The Government would order Blue Cross, Medicare and Medicaid not to pay a hospital more than the specified increase. Hospitals would be required to set aside part of the payments they received from private insurance companies. If these payments exceeded the prescribed limit, the hospitals would have to reimburse the insurers. If they failed...