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...action as little more than a sugar-coated placebo that will have little effect. As a consequence, they are calling for even stronger measures to cope with what FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, calls "our overmedicated society." One reform proposed by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group: require doctors to write a new prescription every time a patient wants to buy tranquilizers. Under the FDA's current rules, tranquilizer prescriptions can be refilled up to five times in six months...
...already appealed for a $27 billion reduction, including faster depreciation and a two-point drop in corporate taxes. Such measures, said the chamber's chief economist, Richard Rahn, "should greatly increase the supply of savings, and that is a very positive program." By contrast, Robert McIntyre of Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group is wary of faster depreciation and wants payroll taxes cut. Says he: "We think it would be a relatively progressive tax cut. It would go to working people mostly, though it would go to business...
...Grandstand show. Scheduled throughout the day are reports on such topics as health and nutrition, law, fashion, pet care, astrology, gardening and home repairs. Turner has also signed up a roster of big-name commentators, including Senator Barry Goldwater, ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Political Columnists Richard Reeves, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Psychologist Joyce Brothers and ERA Opponent Phyllis Schlafly...
First came a long-awaited report prepared by researchers working for Ralph Nader. The 300-page indictment attacked every phase of the ETS operation, long the dominant force in the standardized testing industry...
...Nader's attack on Big Business is an ignorant stereotype. Perhaps we should all honor him on Ignorance...