Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technological skills, Japanese science still suffers from a copycat syndrome. The Japanese often feel it is better to mimic or borrow than originate. Says Electrical Engineer Michiyuki Uenohara, director of Nippon Electric's research labs: "The label of imitator is valid-Japanese research is derivative...
...Frazier law will not clear up some other outstanding legal problems, in particular those of Susie Phipps, though it was her well-publicized legal fight over her racial label that had prompted the legislative change. Phipps, 49, whose great-great-great-great-grandmother was an 18th century black slave, is "colored" according to the state of Louisiana. Phipps, who is married to a wealthy white crawfish merchant, only found that out in 1977, when she applied for a passport and learned that her birth certificate called her colored. She claims she has always considered herself white...
...such bills are currently before the Massachusetts legislature, but only one of them merits passage. The first measure, introduced this spring by a coalition of environmental and labor groups, requires employers to label all toxic substances in the workplace and provide information about these chemicals to employees and community members. That bill won Senate approval, but is currently stalled in the House while moderates try to hammer out a compromise with industry, which predictably opposes the legislation. Faced with growing support for such measures, however, industry proponents figured some legislation was inevitable, and introduced a watered-down version...
...Central America news editor for Associated Press: "The focus of fighting has been there." In San Salvador, reporters sometimes face searches of their apartments, sloppy telephone taps and occasional death threats made in anonymous calls or leaflets. On the Honduras-Nicaragua border, which some leading correspondents last week labeled the new most hazardous spot in an increasingly strife-torn region, there is an emerging hint of precaution. Said Tamayo regretfully: "In El Salvador, journalists use towels as white flags and label cars with the words for 'press.' Here it had not seemed necessary because here there...
...still almost have to force Buttner to enumerate her achievements. She insists that she's not special. She scoffs at the "tags to riches" label...