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...employer has been a more in-your-face foe of OSHA than UPS. Last month the company joined a coalition of 250 business and trade groups that stifled OSHA's attempts to develop a standard aimed at reducing the incidence of conditions like carpal-tunnel syndrome, an inflammatory wrist ailment triggered by repetitive motion. The victory was won even before the agency had a chance to issue the proposed standards for discussion. UPS called the regulations "intrusive, expensive [and] paperwork producing" in an influential letter to House members. The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that monitored...
Vender, a sophomore, learned last January that she has a herniated disc--an ailment that causes the discs in one's spine to flip out of place. The injury forced Vender to stop swimming forever, an activity that she's done practically since birth...
Last week Yeltsin returned to work at the Kremlin, strolling around its snowy courtyards in his first public appearance since a heart ailment felled him two months ago. In a staged event he chatted jovially with Russian tourists and journalists and told them he would not allow the Communists to end his reform program...
...circle of toadies and fools. His is the glutted cry of someone finally facing the truth about his life. Only he hasn't yet met the truth. For he has been lied to even more extensively than he supposes. Told that he's suffering from a minor intestinal ailment, he's actually riddled with cancer. Those closest to him have conspired to conceal his condition...
AILING. MARION BARRY, 59, mayor of Washington; from prostate cancer; in Washington. The controversy-dependent overseer of the nation's capital and his doctors insist the ailment was caught soon enough to ensure complete recovery...