Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inches too low. Deeply hurt, Pinga asked himself: "My God, how can I be guilty? I haven't even had a trial." So he challenged the charges in court and spent $1,500 in legal fees to beat a $90 fine. His heart went out to the young OSHA inspector who broke down on the witness stand and admitted that her only qualification was a 40-hour series of OSHA seminars. But Pinga is convinced that his fight was worthwhile. Thumping a thick tome of OSHA regulations, he declares: "If this book existed when my dad came to this country...
...search and seizure. A suit is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the agency's authority to make inspections without a warrant. There is plenty of evidence that such tactics simply make enforcement all the harder. Says William Kemp, a furniture manufacturer in Goldsboro, N.C.: "If the OSHA inspector and I could work together to make my place safe, it would be O.K. But if he comes in to get me and fine me, I'm going to hide everything I can from him. You don't try to use an atomic bomb when a flyswatter will...
...Phyllis Shreve, who lives with her husband Jerry and son Terry in a white frame house in the bucolic town of Kent, 16 miles south of Seattle. Jerry Shreve, 40, a native Kansan, came to Seattle at 18 to work for Boeing, where he is now a quality-control inspector. Off the job, his passions are growing roses, fishing (he ties his own flies), hunting elk and deer with a 52-lb. longbow or old-fashioned muzzle-loader...
...Fernmeldezentralinspektoren, bowed and scraped before the lofty Regierungsveterinärkommissäre and contorted their tongues addressing Werkstättenobermanipulanten. The bearers of these grandiloquent honorifics, which date back to the Habsburg dynasty, are actually low-ranking civil servants employed in the somewhat less than regal jobs of postal inspector, livestock inspector and repairman...
...civil servant and should be pronounceable, at the very least." Thus an Akademischer Oberrestaurator (restorer in a museum) will become a mere Oberkommissär, or first-class commissioner. A Polizeisanitätskommissar (police health commissioner) will be reduced to just plain Kommissär, while a Kellereiinspektor (inspector of state wine cellars) will henceforth be known only as an Amtsrat, or office counselor. In a curious bow to tradition, Austria's 100 Wirkliche Hofräte (real court counselors), who are assistant secretaries in ministries, will be demoted only to the rank of Hofrat (court counselor) -even though...