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...employer has been a more in-your-face foe of OSHA than UPS. Last month the company joined a coalition of 250 business and trade groups that stifled OSHA's attempts to develop a standard aimed at reducing the incidence of conditions like carpal-tunnel syndrome, an inflammatory wrist ailment triggered by repetitive motion. The victory was won even before the agency had a chance to issue the proposed standards for discussion. UPS called the regulations "intrusive, expensive [and] paperwork producing" in an influential letter to House members. The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that monitored...
...doing is not about candidacy. The book is something I had to do for my soul." That may be all it's good for, notes TIME's John Elson. "Bradley writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being 'courtly.'" Never an accomplished orator, Bradley is scarcely more convincing a writer. "The book is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues," Elson says. "It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers...
Stoll, who looked painfully smaller than both of his opponents, held his own against B.C., only losing by a score of 9-6. However, his weight disadvantage was more telling in the final score against the Army foe, as he lost by a 16-2 count...
Harvard (4-1-1 ECAC, 5-3-1 overall) continued its Jekyll and Hyde season, dropping another hard-fought non-conference battle against Boston College Tuesday but rebounding to knock off a conference foe in downing Brown 6-4 Saturday...
...feature a photo of a scowling Newt Gingrich above a warning about the House Speaker's proposed cuts in Medicare and education. "Jerry Estruth for Congress," an announcer says. "Newt Gingrich hasn't heard of him...But he will." The ad makes no mention of Estruth's real foe, state senator Tom Campbell...