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...cancer when they were fed the sweetener in amounts that would be equivalent, in a human, to 800 cans of diet soda a day throughout his life. The Delaney clause, however, makes no mention of dosage levels. By considering saccharin a drug, the FDA allowed itself to apply less rigid standards: the agency may weigh hazard against benefit in deciding which drugs can be sold. Yet, drugs must be proved "effective," so manufacturers will have until the end of 1977 to demonstrate that saccharin can actually help to control obesity. If they cannot, saccharin will be banned as a drug...
...prevented an ad hoc caste system from forming. Those who railed against privilege only a few years ago now hustle after keys to the best private clubs. After only ten years, Los Angeles' recording industry is hardly mature, but its A-B-C social listings may be more rigid than that of the film community...
...Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, is a close follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a man of Spartan ways. Not only is he a teetotaler, but he is also a rigorous vegetarian. Despite his rigid views on such matters, he is recognized to be an excellent and experienced administrator. His Foreign Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, was a Jan Sangh member and a known opponent of Gandhi's policy of supposed nonalignment which actually leaned towards the Soviet Union. In one of his first statements, Desai declared that India would follow a course of 'truer nonalignment.' "The Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty must not come...
...welfare to work for the state in return for their welfare check. A complicated issue fraught with unforeseen expenses and effects, Frank approves of it philosophically but feels the specific proposal is too harsh on parents with younger children and will result in few tangible benefits. The combination of rigid civil service regulations and collective bargaining for public employees has made it impossible to discipline and fire state employees, Frank says, leaving the bureaucracy with significant problems. Because of Dukakis's faith in the civil service system, Frank says he sees little possibility for reform at the state level...
...colleagues from his radical and poor days like John Leonard and Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, able to get their "views printed in the mass media that would have ruled them out in the '50s and '60s." Access journalists have to live by more rigid rules than the fiercely "honest" radical journalists for whom, in more tumultuous times, the morality of righteous anger was enough...