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OSHA. Candidate Reagan loved to regale audiences with tales of the agency's absurdities, such as its instructions on how to climb a ladder ("Begin by facing the ladder"). President Reagan has backed away from his goal of dismantling OSHA, but he has checked its zeal. "They've succeeded in gutting enforcement," charges Peg Seminario, associate director of health and safety for the AFL-CIO. Between 1980 and 1982, OSHA reduced its workplace inspections by 17%, follow-up inspections by 87%, citations for willful violations by 91% and penalties...
...equality in America was transformed. The energy that blacks had rammed against the wall of segregation was diverted into an effort to win political power of their own. As millions of blacks began registering and voting, a new group of leaders began to make their way up the electoral ladder, becoming county supervisors, municipal clerks, state legislators and, eventually, mayors. Blacks run three of the nation's six largest cities-Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit-and are making a strong bid in a fourth, Philadelphia. The N.A.A.C.P. and other civil rights groups have ceased to be the main recourse...
...family connections that make so many political careers in Japan, the ambitious Tanaka built his own power base by contributing lavishly to the campaigns of fellow members of the Liberal Democratic Party. Dubbed the Computerized Bulldozer for his photographic memory and endless energy, he quickly scrambled up the ladder of Cabinet and party posts until he reached the top rung in 1972. At 54, Tanaka was the youngest Prime Minister in Japanese history...
...candidate named Margaret Roberts, then 23, a lift home from a political meeting. They were married two years later. By then, Denis had inherited the family business and considerable wealth. Maggie quit work, studied law, gave birth to twins, Carol and Mark, and began her ascent up the political ladder. Denis traveled extensively for Atlas and eventually sold the firm to Castrol, a lubricating-oil company, which was later taken over by Burmah Oil. He was a director of planning at a Burmah subsidiary when he retired in 1975, and still sits on several corporate boards...
Ironically, some immigrants try to pull the ladder up after them. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm points out that the great majority of tips to Denver immigration agents come from fellow Hispanics. "The average Hispanic understands," Lamm says, "that there are only so many jobs." In a recent poll of 457 registered Hispanic voters in southern Texas, 54% said they favored stricter enforcement of the immigration laws. "They're destroying this country," complains Juan Ramírez, laid-off master electrician from the Brownsville area. "Are you going to hire me when you can get someone else...