Word: foe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Criticism came quickly. Jeremy Rifkin, a well-known foe of the biotech industry, declared that his Foundation on Economic Trends will file suit against the White House this week over the new rules...
...killed itself," Mayor Harold Washington said jubilantly last week of Chicago's once powerful political machine after his two candidates triumphed in special elections for the 50-member city council. The victories at last / erased the so-called majority bloc of 29 aldermen led by an implacable Washington foe, Cook County Democratic Chairman Edward R. Vrdolyak. The majority had stymied the mayor during his three years in office, blocking appointments and frustrating his efforts to reduce a $78 million budget deficit. Seven special aldermanic elections this year, including last week's, have left the council divided into Washington and Vrdolyak...
...police officers, who had traditionally been allied with the N.R.A., see weaker gun controls as an increased threat to their lives. Pointing to the police in the galleries, Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, a longtime gun foe, declared, "They are here because they recognize that there were 700 or so killed in the last decade (by handguns), and they wonder whether or not they might be next." Only a day after the House action, two FBI agents were killed and five others wounded in Miami as they tried to question two bank robbery suspects who turned on them with...
...dustup was stirred by Jeremy Rifkin, a Washington-based gadfly and an implacable foe of genetic engineering (see box), who filed a petition with the USDA demanding suspension of Biologics' license. In issuing that license, Rifkin charged, the department had not only failed to follow federal guidelines for releasing live, genetically altered organisms into the environment but also neglected to conduct an environmental assessment of the risks involved. Stung by the petition and aware of Rifkin's uncanny success in obtaining court injunctions to back his demands, the USDA beat a hasty retreat. Bert Hawkins, administrator of the department...
...Harvard women's water polo team will be hosting its only regular-season tournament of the year this weekend at Blodgett Pool. Play gets under way this evening, with the Crimson facing frequent foe MIT at 5 p.m., and Rhode Island...