Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Little Control. Against the time when ceilings might become necessary, he established one new agency: a somewhat shadowy Economic Stabilization Agency which would "guide our voluntary efforts," move in with selective controls on presidential order. Under ESA's administrator would be a Director of Price Stabilization (who might become a sort of latter-day Chester Bowles) and a Wage Stabilization Board made up of representatives of labor, management and the public (a latter-day War Labor Board...
...also thought there was much room for improvement in the rent-control...
...superior technical know-how and industrial capacity. They can, for instance, make 50 million tons of steel a year against the 28 million-ton capacity of Russia and its satellites. Yet if West Germany's 50 million people and 15 million-ton steel capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German industrial capacity still in Western hands, there were calamitous dangers in the present situation of free Europe. The free nations had scarcely made a beginning at integrating their industrial efforts. France's bravest postwar gesture, the Schuman Plan...
...able to manufacture enough nucleoproteins to sustain both itself and the multiplying virus. What happens when this takes place on a large scale is that many nerve cells are destroyed. Unlike most of the body's other cells, they cannot be replaced. Once they are destroyed, the muscles controlled by them wither from disuse, and lasting paralysis results; if the cells are only damaged, the paralysis may be temporary as the cells are repaired and again control the muscles...
...Dyer says of his 34 years with the PHS: "I've seen the whole field of public health change enormously in that time. The accent of our research ... has changed from the control of infectious diseases to include chronic diseases." The problem now is not so much the diseases that kill people young, as what to do with people who live to grow old. For that, NIH has a clinical center abuilding...