Word: mckevitt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fear of union retaliation. "The Business Roundtable is the most ineffectual lobby in Washington," contends Paul Weyrich, who heads a conservative lobby named the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress. "They want to compromise before compromise is warranted. They never want to play hard ball." James McKevitt, a former Colorado Congressman who is the Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business, is similarly scornful. Says he of the top executives: "Too many of them suck eggs with the President...
...does not intend to reduce OSHA's staff of 2,700, which has almost doubled in the past five years, or its annual $134 million budget, which has nearly tripled in that time. So far businessmen give her good marks for intentions, lesser ones for accomplishment. Says James D. McKevitt, Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business: "Talking a good game is one thing, but getting those bureaucrats at the bottom to implement it is something else. They often wall off the most well-intentioned administrator. They have the traffic-cop attitude. They just like the power...
...feel like we're in the fifth quarter of a football game with the score 21-14 in our favor, but nobody blew the whistle yet." McKevitt said...
...OSHA is floundering in trivia," says James D. ("Mike") McKevitt, former Colorado Congressman and current Washington lawyer for the 440,000-member National Federation of Independent Business. A Nader study reports that through the first four years of OSHA's activity, more than 98% of its citations involved nonserious cases and fines averaging a mere $19. Meanwhile, after five years, OSHA has produced a grand total of three comprehensive health standards for industry: one governing the amount of asbestos that can be present in factory environments, another for carcinogens, a third for vinyl chloride. It has yet to specify...
...Thomas Riha vanish-as the Colonel claims-simply to escape his troubles with a young wife? Who represented the "federal agencies" that stopped a police investigation last year? Denver District Attorney James D. McKevitt intends to find out. "This one," says the D.A. now, "is right out of Agatha Christie...