Word: commissioner
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In his message, the President emphasized the need for early rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents, before they become habitual lawbreakers. His concern was understandable. Nixon had received a progress report from the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, which ranks the U.S. high among the Western democracies in...
The Nader Report suggests that greatest blame for the F.T.C.'s inactivity must lie with Chairman Dixon. According to their findings, authority in the Commission is extremely centralized: Dixon is responsible for most decisions on what complaints to consider, what enforcement tactics to use, what information to withhold from the...
Certainly Dixon is responsible for the present inactivity of the agency--James Goddard's excellent tenure in the Food and Drug Administration showed the difference in an agency's efficacy that a vigorous administrator can make. Widespread replacement of personnel by men with a more wary view of business practices...
MUCH OF THE Commission's sympathy to business must be blamed on the "conditioning process" to which all regulatory agencies are open. Congressional and lobby friendships, the interchange of jobs between agency and the industry it is regulating, inundation by the industry viewpoint -- are pressures to which all agencies are...
The long-range political prospect for the recommendations of Nader's group is uncertain. Several Senators--Ribicoff, Magnuson, Nelson, Pastori, and Kennedy--can be expected to be sympathetic to an F.T.C. reform effort; the Kennedy staff has "requested" a copy of the Nader report and the January 25 copy of...