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...Once a name is whispered to American officials, the State Department drafts a biography, evaluates the candidate's credentials and then makes a formal recommendation to the President. If the nominee is acceptable, the U.S. sends an official agreement and the appointment is made public. With some exceptions, consent comes without a hitch. But Astorga's nomination was far from typical and had already attracted too much public attention to be reviewed behind closed doors. One Administration spokesman put it mildly: "It's not the usual problem we have. Generally the candidates are too damned dull...
...forbid brown bagging but allow it in practice. (Some states, such as Illinois and Massachusetts, have no laws prohibiting customers from bringing alcoholic beverages into restaurants.) To straighten out the New York mess, legislative wheels are now in motion for passage of an amendment allowing brown bagging with the consent of restaurant owners. Officials at the SLA are taking the position that they were only doing their job. "We're dutybound to go after [violations]," said one spokesman. "If people don't like the law, let them change...
Last week the acrimony ended when McGrath gave approval to a revised merger plan. Under the agreement, LTV, the third-largest American steel producer, and Republic, the fourth biggest, will sign a consent decree requiring the merged company to sell off two Republic plants in Gadsden, Ala., and Massillon, Ohio, within six months after the deal goes through. The Alabama plant makes hot-and cold-rolled carbon and plate steel, while the Ohio one produces sheet stainless steel. The Justice Department said that paring down the production capacity of the new company will put the agreement within its antitrust guidelines...
Some observers quickly suggested, however, that McGrath was just bowing before White House pressure, but he vehemently denied it. Consent decrees normally require properties to be divested before a merger takes place. McGrath defended the new decision by by pointing to the economic plight of the trouobled industry. Steel plants are operating at less than 80% of capacity, and imports have taken 26% of the domestic market...
...addition to limited safety facing women who travel alone, society seems also to deny women the sexual freedom men enjoy. This allows the defense to bring up the victim's sexual history with the presumption that if the woman consents to extramarital sex with one man in her past, she is willing to consent to it with all men who desire...