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...logs showed illness and injury rates to be above the national average in manufacturing did OSHA staffers consider wall-to-wall inspections. To lessen the chance of such unwelcome scrutiny, some employers apparently started doctoring their logs to underreport or hide serious accidents. But OSHA did not begin to crack down with heavy fines on major record-keeping violations until last year. Critics contend that only pressure from Congress and the approaching 1988 election galvanized the agency into action...
...traffic light, a pair of adolescent girls stand rooted to the sidewalk, staring at Cosby. He mugs at them with that marvelously mobile mask of a face, flashing through half a dozen expressions, from idiocy to alarm, in as many seconds. The girls crack up, the light turns green and Cosby speeds away, chuckling with pleasure at his easy ability to make them laugh...
...number of prospects will hope to crack the Crimson's starting line-up and send Harvard to a third straight NCAA Final Four appearance. The recruits include: John Biotti, Chris' younger brother, of Newton; Pete Ciavaglia of Synder, Ted Donato of Dedham; Michael Francis of Braintree; Matt Silwa of Acton; Eric Vandal of Seekonk; Michael Vukonich of Duluth, Minn.; and Michael Weisbrod of Woodbury...
...pressure the U.S. is exerting on Mexico to crack down on drug trafficking may finally be paying off. Last week the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mexican Federal Judicial Police confirmed the arrest of the drug lord and his son Jaime Herrera Herrera. After DEA agents helped locate the Herreras last month, federales raided their houses in Guadalajara and Torreon. Said Antonio Gonzalez of the Mexican embassy in Washington: "These arrests show that our effort is going firmly and showing results...
...moderates, Reagan's tentative endorsement of the peace plan signed in August by five Central American Presidents may have seemed grudging and tepid. But to the right it sounded like the crack of doom for any effort to save Nicaragua from Communism. Some conservatives are also aghast at what they view as the Administration's headlong rush into a missile treaty with the Soviets, and in particular by its retreat from strict verification demands. Says Patrick Buchanan, once Reagan's communications director: "We are better off with 574 missiles that can land on the Soviet Union than we are with...