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...Experts cite several reasons, in addition to a parade of scary headlines, for the rush to buy security equipment. The surge of women into the work force, for example, has meant that many houses and entire neighborhoods are now largely empty during the day. In addition, brisk sales of home computers, videotape recorders and other expensive items have left many households with more to protect...
...Kenneth N. Carstens, the IDAF's executive director for the United States, explains, the organization cannot cite specific examples of people it has helped for fear of reprisals against those people, their lawyers and their families in South Africa...
Steiner's decision to expand Harvard's inside legal staff is not unusual in the legal world. Over the past few years there has been a trend towards larger in-house staffs among universities as well as private corporations. Lawyers for other major universities and corporations consistently cite the same reasons as Harvard attorneys for their efforts to rely less on outside counsel: cost containment and greater familiarity with organizational policies and procedures...
...cannot get their insurance money unless they file a police report. But when statisticians turn to private violence, the numbers become iffy, approximate in the extreme. Are there 650,000 cases of child abuse annually, or a million? Or 6 million? Bona fide experts, extrapolating and just guessing, variously cite all those figures and others. It is said that every year 2 million women are beaten by their husbands, and it is also said that nearly 6 million are. Pick your figure. A Justice Department survey counted 178,000 rapes during 1981, but for every woman who reported a rape...
...Administration has long been considered overly cautious about approving new drugs, even when doctors, drug manufacturers and patients were urging fast action. The Reagan Administration set out to make the FDA move faster. Now some critics charge that the FDA has become a tool of the drug industry. They cite the FDA's approval in 1982 of Oraflex, an arthritis pain reliever, despite evidence that its side effects might be highly toxic. In the first three weeks, 64,000 U.S. prescriptions were written. But after 61 deaths in Britain had been linked to the drug, the manufacturer withdrew...