Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sluggishness has drawn fierce criticism from citizen and environmental groups, prodding some congressmen into action. Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) introduced a bill to force the EPA to enforce a ban on 2,4,5-T herbicide, but the bill has never received serious consideration in the Senate. Several private citizens are sueing the EPA, the Forestry Service and the Dow Chemical Company, one of the major manufacturers of the herbicide. Dow denies any responsibility and published the results of company-sponsored experiments that deny any connection between the adverse effects of dioxin dosage in lab animals and dioxin intake...
Psychologist Gaylord Ellison conducted the experiment in the basement of the U.C.L.A. psychology building, where he compared the drinking habits of 36 individually caged rats with those of 36 rats living together in a 13-ft. by 20-ft. condominium, complete with rat-scale dining room and bar. The rats living alone drank more, but in no particular pattern. The commune rats drank regularly in groups from three spigots fed with an anise-flavored solution of 10% alcohol. The heaviest drinking came before the daily meal of rich scraps from the U.C.L.A. faculty dining room, and just before...
...Congress is a Democratic proposal to stop using Social Security revenues to finance Medicare and federal disability insurance. Their budgets total $36 billion a year, about one-third of Social Security tax collections, and these benefits have been shooting up in cost. The Democrats, led by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson and Illinois Representative Abner Mikva, would pay for these programs from general federal revenues. Massachusetts Congressman James Burke, the chairman of a House subcommittee on Social Security, has proposed that one-third of the Social Security system's cost be paid from general revenues. This change would lessen...
...House bill now goes to the Senate, where Russell Long's Finance Committee is bogged down with the energy program and may not take up Social Security until next year. When it does, the committee will tack on an amendment by Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson that would ease the tax burden on workers by making their employers pay a bigger share of Social Security cost. Under Nelson's proposal, 1978 would be the last year in which both paid the same tax: 6.05% of the first $17,700 earned by the worker. The next year, employers would pay taxes...