Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...codes or warning labels are wanting. Even then, Congress reserved for itself the power to veto any proposed regulation. The crippled commission's new head, Nancy Steorts, has called for an improved Government-business relationship. Says she: "Cooperation with industry will replace the adversary relationship of the past." Karen Burstein, chairman of the New York State consumer protection board, says that the government is retreating from taking action on some potentially harmful products like urea formaldehyde, a home insulation component that is feared to be a possible carcinogen. Says she: "Formerly the CPSC would have banned it or mandated...
Beyond Sophie? There is a film on the horizon about Karen Silkwood, an antinuclear activist who was mysteriously killed in an auto crash while working on an exposé in 1974. And afterward? It is a little startling to realize that Meryl Streep has appeared in only one Broadway show (Happy End in 1977). Another Broadway musical? A filmed musical? Some really alarming risk-taking on one of Joe Papp's stages? Say her friend Papp: "I'm convinced we haven't yet begun to see the richness of her talent." In fact, says this cheerfully biased stage director, "in films?...
...state bar. On June 20, 1981, the Rhode Island State Bar Association named Beverly Glenn Long as president. She is the fourth woman to hold such a position. In 1977-78, Carole Kamin Bellows was president of the Illinois State Bar. Alaska has had Donna Willard, while Karen L. Hunt is currently occupying the office...
...Tetbury, Master Thomas Charles Wortley, 5, will entertain local celebrators by re-enacting the wedding with Miss Karen Diana Welch, 9. There will be a wedding cake and toasts to both brides and grooms. Members of the younger set are not quite so cagey with the press as their elders, however, and a friend of the couple confided that Master Wortley thinks Miss Welch "soppy"; Miss Welch, in return, considers her make-believe spouse "an awful brat...
Some members of Wildmon's coali tion contend that is not so. Says Karen Davis of Fort Worth, Texas, local leader of Christian Women's National Concerns: "Our group is not so much for limitation of TV shows, as it is to get shows that are of a high quality on TV." Most coalition spokesmen, however, appear to share Falwell's goal of making every program on the tube suitable for family viewing. For jxample, Dan Fore, Moral Majority's New York State chairman, says that TV should return to shows like I Love Lucy...