Word: injection
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Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is the moving force behind the most recent attempt to inject accountability and democracy into the corporate decision-making process. Backed by a coalition of consumer-interest and labor groups, Nader is using today's Big Business Day events to call attention to the proposed "Corporate Democracy Act of 1980." Nader advocates federal chartering of corporations because state chartering encourages attempts to woo business by relaxing corporate regulations. Deleware, for example, boasts the nation's most lenient business codes and incorporates about half of the Fortune 500 businesses. Madison's reservations about state regulation were probably...
...taken to signing off on the CBS Evening News: "And that's the way it is, the 86th [or 96th] day of captivity for those 50 American hostages in Iran." Cronkite's gesture is well meant, but network anchormen don't usually, and shouldn't, inject patriotic reminders into news coverage. In fact, when John Connally argued in a 1977 speech in Houston that the press has a duty to express "a candid bias" for the preservation of the free enterprise system, Cronkite sharply set him straight: "It is not the reporter...
...submarine crew. Three air medals and the DFC. Phi Beta Kappa at Yale. Creator of an independent off shore oil drilling firm in Texas. A millionaire at 41. Twice elected to Congress from Houston. Nor does he shun name-dropping. "The last time I saw Mao," he will inject into an answer about world affairs, or "I've been to the Khyber Pass...
Writing in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, William J. Curran, 52, professor of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Ward Casscells, 28, a resident at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, maintain that death by injection, however carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which all doctors vow never to harm their patients willfully. In fact, the oath specifically forbids using or suggesting the use of poisons. The policy adopted by Oklahoma tries to avoid any conflict with medical ethics by requiring "trained medical employees" to insert a drug-carrying catheter and inject the lethal...