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...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 well-founded in an age of small-scale agrarian enterprises; the need for standardized, federal guidelines for today's ubiquitous business world seems almost axiomatic...
...prisoners now held under military detention. The concession almost certainly would have meant early acquittal for some. Others would have been freed if their sentences matched time already spent in jail. Still other detainees would probably have been transferred from military to civilian jurisdiction, where they could expect more lenient judgments...
...That may explain why the Soviet Baptists are supposed to get a seminary soon, their first since 1928.' The Baptist faith, the main Protestant group, was often persecuted by the Czars because of Orthodox dominance so that when Lenin suppressed Orthodoxy after the Revolution, he was at first lenient with Baptists. But since the late 1920s Baptists have not fared well. They number 200,000 in the Ukraine, about half the official total in the U.S.S.R...
...left the magazine, had to be invited back to give it intellectual tone again. At this point Hugh Hefner, a circulation promotion writer at Esquire decided to start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book," Esquire made a wobbly retreat from barbershop sexism. Soon its advertising men protested that Esquire had become too stuffy and intellectual...
...take back 8.7 million "500" radial tires, a move that so far has cost the company $147 million. She has also established tough fuel economy standards (27 m.p.g. by 1984) and stuck to them despite protests from manufacturers. Some of her former consumer-rights colleagues claim Claybrook was too lenient in postponing the deadline for airbags; Ralph Nader has called her an "accommodator" and demanded her resignation. Detroit wants her to go for other reasons: the Georgetown-trained lawyer is known in the industry as the Dragon Lady. Says Claybrook: "I think that having critics is just a part...