Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condition of the Senator's support, Hatch also relayed his list to Sununu, who could be counted on to recognize a quid pro quo when he saw one. "The Administration promised to put antiabortion people all around Sullivan," complains Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. "They made sure he wouldn't exercise independent judgment." Hatch brushes off all of the protests. "Bush has said he stands for certain principles," the Senator says. "So why should he appoint someone who is completely antithetical to his viewpoint...
Though Hatch and Sullivan deny that any deal was made at their meeting, three names on the Hatch list have got high department posts: Constance Horner, the department's Under Secretary; James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary for Health; and Kay James, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. A fourth, former Hatch staffer Antonia Novello, is the White House nominee to succeed C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General...
...opportunity to repeal Roe. But after weeks of negotiation, a settlement was announced last week between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union, which was representing a doctor who had challenged the rules. The state dropped the equipment requirements while retaining its right to inspect clinics and enforce health and safety rules...
...tourists out and supplies in. Despite about $10 million in damage, the luxury Virgin Grand resort on St. John was turned into a rescue center by general manager Jim St. John. In all he served about 15,000 meals, provided showers and transformed $595-a-night rooms into a health clinic that has treated more than 1,000 people...
...such a shrill and occasionally unscrupulous manner that in the debates he hopes to encourage, fear and anger frequently replace information and reasoned judgment. As a result, the message is too easily discarded with the messenger. Says W. French Anderson, a gene-therapy researcher at the National Institutes of Health (and a Rifkin target): "In private, he and I agree almost exactly. The difference is that Jeremy is a professional activist, and he says and does whatever he needs to do to draw attention to his position...