Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criticized venture. At a saving of $99 million, she increased the price of school lunches by one-third and abolished free milk rations for some 3.5 million primary schoolchildren. One independent research group promptly charged that the abolition of free milk would cause the number of children with a calcium deficiency to increase from 13% of the primary school population to 34%. Some school administrators announced that they would pay for free milk out of local property taxes, but Mrs. Thatcher put through a bill making this illegal. Even then, the poor Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil went...
...told by a constituent about the dangers of PCB. Checking further. Ryan found studies showing that large amounts of PCBs had been discovered in the fish and sea birds of several countries. The studies also revealed that the compounds can cause liver damage in mice and disrupt the calcium metabolism of birds, which then lay thin-shelled eggs. Alarmed by the findings, Ryan delivered a House speech on PCBs. The Department of Agriculture responded by halting the use of PCBs-but only in pesticides. Then, despite complaints from customers, Monsanto announced that, as of September 1970, it would stop sales...
...days longer than any previous manned space flight-led to theorizing that the cosmonauts had exceeded man's natural limits in space. The Russians themselves had invited such speculation by repeatedly stressing the debilitating effects of weightlessness on the human body: loss of body fluids, loss of calcium from the bones, loss of heart and muscle tone. Cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov, for example, complained that they did not fully recover from their 17-day orbital mission aboard Soyuz 9 last year for more than a week...
...Cavanagh is a tough competitor, he rises to the occasion," Barnaby said. "Look what he did during the hockey season with calcium deposits in his shoulder. He might do the same...
...singles ladder, both captain Bill Washauer and senior Joe Cavanagh were hampered by injuries. Washauer is still showing the effects of a January knee operation for calcium deposits. Cavanagh, who has decided to postpone surgery on his shoulder until after the tennis season, found that his arm stiffened after competition...