Word: congressmen
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...work," he says. "You have to hustle around gathering fragments of information from as many sources as possible, and then fit them together into a logical pattern." So Sider set off across Washington, hunting down and questioning more than 50 people with a stake in the new energy program: Congressmen, Capitol Hill aides, industry executives, environmentalists, public interest lawyers and others. Then, after huddling with fellow Correspondent John Berry, another energy expert, he wired his findings to Associate Editor David Tinnin, who wrote the cover story. Though Schlesinger and his staffers are still hard at work on final details...
...hurt by imports -the Northeast in the case of shoes, the South for sugar, the East and West Coast for TV sets-have formed an alliance to press for these ideas. Last week the shoe industry sent Carter a petition signed by 29 Governors supporting the ITC recommendation; 133 Congressmen signed a similar letter...
...generally, to amend the Delaney amendment so that the FDA can apply some sort of "reasonableness test" to the results of experiments like those on the saccharin-stuffed rats. There is little sentiment to repeal the Delaney amendment outright or to write detailed standards for the FDA to follow. Congressmen, says one Senate aide, dread being put in the position "of voting how much cancer is to be allowed in food." But public outrage against the saccharin ban is so vehement-in some congressional offices it accounted for two of every three letters and phone calls from constituents last week...
Echeverria's rhetoric and his apparent commitment to social change terrified the Mexican bourgeoisie. A group of American congressmen warned that Mexico was becoming a socialist country and that before long a new 'Red Cuba' would emerge south of the border. The general fear created by this situation caused the outflow of a considerable amount of capital, precipitating the devaluation of the peso last August from eight American cents to four. By this time nearly half of Mexico's labor force was out of work or underemployed, and inflation reached an annual rate of 25 per cent. In the three...
...inconvenience." Most diabetes specialists disagreed. They pointed out that many of the estimated 10 million Americans who suffer from diabetes find saccharin absolutely essential to fulfill their craving for sweets. At Boston's Joslin Diabetes Foundation, callers were urged to write strong letters of protest to their Congressmen. Exclaimed the foundation's president, Dr. Alexander Marble: "This ban is against common sense!" The American Diabetes Association was so concerned about how to deal with the saccharin crisis that it scheduled an emergency meeting. Said Dr. Donnell Etzwiler of Minneapolis, head of the Diabetes Association: "Taking away low-calorie...