Word: impounding
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...that the FDA had dared challenge the big food companies. The first target was Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice, another P&G product. After more than a year of wrangling over the word "fresh" (the product is made from concentrate and is pasteurized), the FDA had U.S. marshals impound 24,000 half-gallon cartons of the juice at a suburban Minneapolis warehouse. P&G gave in within two days. Unilever subsidiary Ragu Foods, which since 1989 had been skirmishing over the same word on labels for its processed pasta sauce, soon dropped its fight. And earlier this month...
Also, to avoid a fiscal disaster similar to the crisis the state suffered in its last bookkeeping year, the budget would mandate that the governor impound money if state revenues start to decline unexpectedly, said Senate Ways and Means Chair Patricia McGovern, a member of the conference committee...
...state Supreme Judicial Court ruled earlier this month that Dukakis did not have authority to impound the local aid money when he cut the 1990 budget...
...legislative leaders, including House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), said the governor's power to impound money must be challenged...
...drug dealers where it hurts -- in their profits. But the law allows government agencies to carry out "administrative seizures" that do not require the owner to be convicted of any crime. Police and federal agents in New York City and Los Angeles have been using that method to impound the cars of drive-in drug buyers whose purchases would bring merely a misdemeanor charge in court. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, who proposed zero tolerance to the White House drug-policy board after a successful pilot program in San Diego, says its purpose is likewise to put pressure...