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...James Simmons, director of the FDA's biologics compliance office: "There simply was not a lot of evidence of changes or improvements." Two years into Mrs. Dole's presidency, the FDA, still frustrated, went to court to force the Red Cross to act. The result was a May 1993 consent decree setting out a stringent five-year plan for reform...
Resolutely positive, Mrs. Dole says the FDA sought the consent decree merely as a yardstick to measure improvement. She was so prepared for this conversation with TIME that she read aloud remarks by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and FDA commissioner David Kessler praising her management. The consent decree, she says, "literally was a ratification, it was a ratification of what we were doing...
After three months of negotiations, however, the Justice Department persuaded the union to sign a consent decree acknowledging Mob influence and conceding to court-appointed officers. But the department agreed to hold off filing the decree as long as the union makes progress cleaning itself up. The deal left Coia on the job even though the original complaint described him as "associated with and controlled and influenced by organized-crime figures...
...rabbi in Berkeley, California, has proposed an alternative to traditional religious marriage: a ceremony for what he calls a "covenant of love" for couples wishing to sanctify lifelong monogamous relationships. Ancient Roman law recognized three categories of marriage--a legally sanctioned union, marriage by purchase and marriage by mutual consent. Perhaps states might recognize different types of unions for both same-sex and heterosexual partnerships...
...cases a year; the U.S. equivalent would be 40,000 to 60,000) and abused. Indeed, legalization has resulted in so much abuse--not just psychological pressure but a shocking number of cases of out-and-out involuntary euthanasia, inconvenient and defenseless patients simply put to death without their consent--that last year the Dutch government was forced to change its euthanasia laws...