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...sluggish research and regulatory updates: "FDA last set its research priorities 8 years ago and has not systematically worked with others to supplement its research agenda, including research relating to fresh produce. FDA's 1998 good agricultural practices guidance has not been updated, and its current good manufacturing practice regulations for food, which includes fresh-cut produce operations, was last revised...
...social and political tumult of the 1960s. In 1963, with a special issue titled "The Negro in America" - one of the handful of truly revolutionary pieces of American journalism - Oz made Newsweek a force to be reckoned with and demonstrated that great journalism could help shape a national agenda. But he wasn't all high seriousness; if you spoke to those who worked with Oz during his time at Newsweek in the 1960s and 1970s, what came across above all was his sheer sense of the fun of it all, epitomized by an intolerance for cant and MEGO ("my eyes...
...minutes later, when Obama was asked what he would be willing to give up on his presidential agenda due to the cost of the bailout, Keara D. Cormier ’11 commented: “I wish he would actually say what he was going to give...
...Then there was her pained, and painful, response to Couric's questions about the Bush "freedom agenda" - the goal of spreading democracy in the Islamic world. Predictably, Palin repeated standard Bush platitudes about making "every effort possible to help spread democracy for those who desire freedom, independence, respect for equality. That is the whole goal here in fighting terrorism. It's not just to keep the people safe, but to be able to usher in democratic values and ideals around this, around the world." That theory, though, has been discredited by the debacle in Iraq and years of inconvenient outcomes...
...these two Senators is about to be thrust into the White House, however, where the gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression will shape his agenda and probably narrow his options for years to come. Beneath the armor of two politicians in crisis mode, there were signs of the kind of President each would...