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House leaders, meanwhile, were moving with unusual efficiency to clear the chamber's agenda for a full-scale airing of impeachment charges beginning the first week of August. The House has been acting fast on major funding legislation, in anticipation of a pro-impeachment recommendation from the Rodino committee. The leaders expect the House to vote on the articles by Aug. 23. Assuming that a majority of the House approves charges of impeachable conduct, the Senate should be able to try the President this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Tacking Toward the Impeachment Line | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...detectable" amounts of vinyl chloride, a gas that has been linked to liver cancer (TIME, May 13). Plastics executives testified that technologically such perfect purification is impossible. At the other hearings, held by the House Select Subcommittee on Labor, representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce voiced more general gripes. Speaking for the N.A.M., for instance, Michael Stinton, safety manager of Dow Corning Corp., contended that lowering factory noise levels from 90 decibels to 85, one proposal OSHA has studied, could cost U.S. industry a ruinous $31 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAFETY: OSHA Under Attack | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...loudest protests come from medium-sized businesses-which have the highest accident rates. Many owners of these firms complain that the cost of obeying OSHA rules could drive them into bankruptcy. But when Democratic Representative Joseph Gaydos of Pennsylvania pressed Richard Berman, director of labor law for the Chamber of Commerce, to name a firm that had been put out of business by OSHA rules, Berman admitted he could not cite even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAFETY: OSHA Under Attack | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...content to rest, he then packed up my mother and younger brother and moved to The Netherlands. He is now busier than ever writing articles, performing chamber music and generally having the time of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1974 | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...expertise needed to deal with municipal problems. "These are a lot of people who have been in the stands watching but who haven't had a chance to play the game," says Robert Brennan, a former University of Wisconsin track coach and head of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, who has been working to bridge the gap between Soglin and the businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAYORS: A Radical's Greening | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

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