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As its name poetically suggests ("21_21" was devised to convey a visual ability that goes beyond mere 20/20), Design Sight intends to be forward-looking if not avant-garde. Its first exhibition-organized by Fukasawa and running until July 29-involves 30 designers, the majority Japanese, responding to the...
When Michael Baroody of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) withdrew his nomination to run the Consumer Product Safety Commission on May 23, Democrats cheered that a fox had been barred from the henhouse. But, they sighed, President George W. Bush had otherwise succeeded in turning government over to businessmen...
In the face of heated opposition from consumer activists and Democrats, Michael Baroody of the National Association of Manufacturers Wednesday withdrew his doomed nomination to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Democrats had attacked President Bush for assigning "the fox to guard the henhouse," and consumer activists had blasted Baroody...
Still, at NAM, Baroody has fought to shield manufacturers from safety claims and fines over products ranging from asbestos to tobacco. That is, of course, his job. Most of the Administration's former lobbyists haven't broken any rules; they've just sided with industry against consumer activists and environmentalists...
The capitalist ideal is free markets and level playing fields; the lobbyist ideal is influencing the levers of power to help clients. In the Bush Administration, lobbyists control those levers of power, and use them to provide corporate welfare, tax breaks, access to public land, and other big-government goodies...