Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OSHA recently has trimmed its rule books a bit, plucking out such anachronisms as a prohibition against ice in factory drinking water (a throwback to a time years ago when ice was cut from polluted rivers). Last week OSHA's director, Assistant Secretary of Labor Morton Corn, said that some of the agency's hoariest regulations soon would be revised and businessmen would get a louder voice in changing them...
...Director Corn, a respected professor of occupational health at the University of Pittsburgh, who was appointed to head OSHA late last year, is determined to make the agency more effective. Corn is moving to hire 250 new inspectors and expand the agency's training program to focus more on worker health. Of 1,200 OSHA inspectors, only 135 are industrial hygienists. "OSHA has taken a hell of a rapping for petty enforcement," says Corn. "It was deserved. We've concentrated far too much on safety and not enough on health...
...Corn is under no illusion that his task will be easy. Already bills are piling up in Congress that would weaken the original OSHA act. One would essentially exempt from regulation businesses employing 25 or fewer workers. OSHA has tangled with other federal agencies over who has jurisdiction in safety matters involving aircraft, railroads and interstate trucking. And recently in Texas, a federal court ruled that OSHA inspectors cannot enter a workplace without a search warrant...
...Catholic Church in Santiago's slums to feed the small children. We got there for lunch and our guide, a young French priest, introduced us to the 60 or so kids there by asking them to say hello to "our foreign friends." They looked up from their plates of corn soup and sang out their hellos with big smiles. I thought I was going...
What could upset the relatively pleasing picture? A weather disaster affecting this year's corn, wheat or soybean crops could do it, but the impact would not be noticeable on market shelves until 1977. Although many farmers from Iowa to Texas are worried about a drought, and there has been some damage to the winter wheat crop, grain prices have so far been only slightly affected. The outlook is for continued calm, with the main beneficiaries-in this election year-being the millions of middle-and lower-income families that spend more of their available cash on food than...