Word: mcateer
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...including many union leaders, charge that OSHA is not taking enough action to combat the hazards of dangerous equipment and noxious chemicals that can lead to ailments, injuries and deaths. "OSHA laws are supposed to improve a worker's chance of getting home safely to his family," says Davitt McAteer, director of the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center, a public-interest law firm in Washington. "But the worker has less protection than he did eight years...
Their reach extends to the highest office in the land: Fundamentalists contributed to both of Ronald Reagan's victories. Reagan, in the estimation of Ed McAteer of the Roundtable, a religious right lobby, "is the real champion of those values and rights that Christian Fundamentalists believe...
...veteran in the state legislature (he was voted one of the 20 "worst" legislators last April), Ashe lobbied ferociously for the Republican nomination. In an unusual step, the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee settled upon Ashe before the primary to avoid a costly, divisive race. One piqued G.O.P. hopeful, Ed McAteer, 57, a former Colgate-Palmolive executive, is running as an independent. The archconservative founder of the Religious Roundtable, an evangelical political group, McAteer may siphon off right-wing votes from Ashe...
...America was established for God" and the Christian Right has sought political power because "it is concerned with the country's morality." Ed McAteer, president of the Religious Roundtable Association, told the nearly 200 spectators...
...McAteer and co-panelist Bill Marshner, professor of theology at Christendom College, argued that legislators should base laws on issues like abortion on "fundamental" biblical interpretations...