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...target its inspections. It stopped making surprise visits to factory floors and instead began relying on checks of the companies' own records. Only if employers' safety logs showed illness and injury rates to be above the national average in manufacturing did OSHA staffers consider wall-to-wall inspections. To lessen the chance of such unwelcome scrutiny, some employers apparently started doctoring their logs to underreport or hide serious accidents. But OSHA did not begin to crack down with heavy fines on major record-keeping violations until last year. Critics contend that only pressure from Congress and the approaching 1988 election...
...naked bodies of 18 other young men. In their efforts to escape from the locked boxcar, they left gashes on the wood lining of the heavy metal door and used railroad spikes in a vain attempt to gouge through the floor. They had removed their clothes to lessen the effect of the intense heat, also to no avail. Some had chewed their tongues during convulsions, spilling blood on their cast-off clothing...
Alnilam also contains impelling descriptions of aerial combat, though we learn later the stories are probably lies. Significantly, the accusation cannot lessen the imaginativeness of the narration. It is one of Dickey's better stunts: to portray the artist as an inspired liar who can convince us that boats float on grass and a book...
...merely hold that where the government's activities have already worked a taking of all use of property, no subsequent action by the government can relieve it of the duty to provide compensation for the period during which the taking was effective." Rehnquist acknowledged that the decision would "lessen to some extent the freedom and flexibility of land-use planners," but he pointed out that it does not involve "normal delays in obtaining building permits, changes in zoning ordinances and the like...
...treatment the doctors used, the patient is first given chemotherapy, in order to lessen the number of the tumor cells. Next, the doctors removed one-fifth of the patient's bone marrow through needles...