Word: commissioner
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The five senior ministers who were not in the previous government scarcely qualified as fresh. The new Minister of Industry, for example, is André Giraud, 53, who has been chief of France's Atomic Energy Commission since 1970. Transportation Minister Joël Le Theule, 48, held a...
In promotions stretching back to 1921, Warner-Lambert has asserted that its Listerine mouthwash helps prevent colds and sore throats. Last week that claim was finally snuffed out by a fatal regulatory infection called truth in advertising. The Supreme Court declined to review a lower court decision upholding a 1975...
No federal agency has been the butt of such angry cannonades as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC, formed in 1975 to police the trading of commodity futures following widespread charges of price fixing, fraud and manipulation of customers' accounts, deserves a lot of criticism. As a notorious...
Six Washington firms employ more than 100 lawyers, and two-Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn (130 attorneys) and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (110)-did not even exist 20 years ago. But the hottest growth area is the small new firm with a big name on its shingle. Among former Government luminaries...
Curb Regulation. The spreading powers of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and hundreds of other regulatory agencies aggravate inflation by adding to the budget and, more important, swelling the costs of doing business. One significant step would be to hold...