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These days it takes a botched or otherwise unusual execution to grab public attention. Executions have become so frequent they are usually relegated to a couple of column inches on the inside pages of morning newspapers. From the end of the de facto ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in 1977 through last year, only eleven Americans were put to death legally. Stephens' execution last week, however, was the 20th this year. Not since 1963 have the states executed so many people. Next year the rate of executions seems sure to quicken, perhaps to one a week: by most...
Good engineering and careful inspections, however, are not enough, since the most frequent cause of accidents is human error. Companies and manufacturing groups have a continual program of training films, manuals and classroom instruction to educate workers on safety procedures and what to do in case of accidents. Allied says that as much as one-quarter of a manufacturing supervisor's time is devoted to health, safety and environmental training...
...conference of Republican Governors in Des Moines last week, there were frequent complaints that Washington was not dealing fairly with the states. Said David Runkel, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh: "We had to take certain steps since 1980 to reduce our own budgetary imbalances. Should our success now be used by the Federal Government to say they can take advantage of it?" Agreed Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the NGA: "The Governors want to be helpful in trying to get the deficit down. But states have already made a major contribution to that end in the last three...
Dershowitz made frequent reference to campus activism over South Africa and demanded similar commitment to the Jewish plight from members of the university community. "It is wrong to take action only against some violators of human rights," he said in a speech from the steps of Widener Library to a crowed of nearly 150 students...
...first day on the witness stand, General William C. Westmoreland described how he made frequent visits to his field commanders in Viet Nam to hear their briefings and get firsthand impressions. He used the word briefings as an old soldier would, perhaps not even aware of its connection to his $120 million libel suit against CBS. For briefings are also what journalism is about?gathering facts, asking questions and then briefing a public that hasn't the time or the patience to hear...