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...lobbying hard for bills proposed by Republican Representative Cass Ballenger of North Carolina and New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg that would curb OSHA's power to issue citations and fines for infractions of hundreds of rules and regulations. The sweeping change would transform the agency from a watchdog on safety matters to a toothless "adviser" to industry. Ballenger's measure has picked up 155 co-sponsors and, with some tinkering, could pass the House this spring. As it happens, Ballenger got $10,000 from UPS for his 1994 election race. Gregg, who contends that "OSHA has developed a well...
...Administration's proposed tough new restrictions on tobacco ads and sales to minors as not only unnecessary and unwise but also an "illegal power grab." The attorneys general of 25 states begged to differ. They sent the agency a supportive letter, urging a cooperative federal and state effort to curb teen smoking...
Despite policies of increased enforcement that have occurred this fall at several colleges (most notably the University of Rhode Island), severity on the part of officials in dealing with drinking may temporarily curb the amount of drinking but cannot ensure that students' approach to drinking will change. Colleges persuaded to follow Wechsler's approach may quickly find that their student bodies' diversity is a detriment when trying to encourage both the "Animal House" crowd and the premed study group to speak out against their classmates' drinking habits...
Newt Gingrich had a favorite game when he was growing up in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. His pal Dennis Yantz would pretend to beat him up and leave him crumpled on the curb. "When a car would pull up to see what was wrong," Yantz recalls, "Newt would jump up and scream 'SURPRISE!' We would do this over and over again." For some reason, Yantz says, Newt always wanted to be the one who played dead...
Phillip Morris USA also announced initiatives in June designed to curb the problem of teenage smoking. It proposed measures including discontinuing free cigarrette samples, placing warning labels on their products, cautioning retailers against selling to minors, and pulling their merchandise from retailers who are known to sell to minors...