Word: informant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funds to administer new laws. Enforcement of the 1966 Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, adopted over vigorous objections from the food industry, has been all but abandoned by the FDA: it has funds to pay only two employees to do the job. The FTC initially received enough money to inform retailers of the new truth-in-lend-ing law, effective last July 1, but not enough to enforce...
Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and chairman of the subcommittee which made the two recommendations, will inform President Pusey today of the Research Policy Committee'sdecision. The Corporation will decide, probably this month, how Harvard will be associated with the Project...
...report indicted the industry for dereliction of its duty to the American people-although not in the sense meant by Agnew. Among its conclusions: broadcasting is far behind print in investigative reporting, "documentary programming hit a new low" and reporting of the 1968 election campaign did not adequately inform the electorate. In a personal postscript. Sir William Haley kissed off much of U.S. news coverage as "meretricious, superficial and spotty." The survey hammered at what it called "the real cause of the crisis in broadcasting": broadcasters' obsession with private profit rather than public service. "A theologian would call...
...policeman begins to arrest a demonstrator. Radlo said, a marshall will inform the demonstrator of his rigorist, record the officer's badge number, and phone the circumstances of the arrest into the appropriate police precinct...
...attempt demonstrated the extraordinary efficiency of a pioneering early-warning system that is called the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena. Based at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., the center uses volunteer observers and the Smithsonian's satellite-tracking communications network to inform the world's scientists about important natural events. It has one extraordinary requirement: like the meteor over Mexico, the phenomena that it reports must be so fleeting that they can be successfully studied only while they occur or very shortly thereafter...