Word: actioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That estimate may be much too low. Not only will the OPEC action add at least 2? to the already rising costs of gasoline, but as the price goes up, people will demand bigger paychecks from their employers. That will spread the increases through the whole economy, multiplying the impact. The latest OPEC boost will have a direct adverse effect on the nation's balance of payments. Last week the Commerce Department released some cheering figures showing that the trade deficit shrank in February to a 22-month low, in part because of a $700 million decline...
...Yorker, is not. Whiteside's early articles on dioxin started a move that led, back in 1970, to a ban on the practice of spraying herbicides containing the substance on the jungles of Viet Nam. His newest book may help to create a climate for domestic restrictions. Such action seems appropriate. Everything that is known about dioxin, associated with skin eruptions, liver damage, cancers, mental problems, miscarriages and birth defects, suggests that it may be even better at killing animals and people than at killing weeds...
...Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud documents, not enough action has yet been taken: "The regulatory process that is supposed to govern the use of the herbicide can be described as almost stalled, having been impeded by disagreement among scientists, by the determination of the chemical manufacturing industry to continue production and sale of the herbicide, by bureaucratic backing and filling . . . and by the Government's own indecisiveness." Nor has there been much concern about the 1976 catastrophe that ruined the Italian town of Seveso, or about discovery of the poison in a chemical soup found in a landfill near...
Although affirmative action is an important social tool, it is slow, limited and legalistic, a panel of administrators and professors said yesterday at a Mather House Black Table Colloquium...
...hiring demands of a university make affirmative action harder to implement at Harvard than in industry, the panel said, and has led to some unpredictable results...