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Some regulations will always be necessary, and not only to avoid abuses of workers or a return to the pre-Nader days of unsafe cars. If there were no mandatory standards set by Government, companies willing to spend hard cash on antipollution and safety gear would lose orders to competitors that refused to make those social investments; the callous companies would have lower costs. The nation desperately needs to find a sensible midpoint between too much regulation and too little...
Gadfly. Definition: a usually intentionally annoying person who stimulates or provokes others, especially by persistent, irritating criticism. Example: Sidney Wolfe, director of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group...
...Wolfe, then a National Institutes of Health researcher, began working with Nader. Three years later, they collaborated on a letter to the FDA warning that many bottles of intravenous fluid were contaminated with bacteria that had caused 150 cases of infection and nine deaths. They protested that the FDA's proposed solution?continued use of the bottles with added precautions?was shockingly inadequate. Two days later the agency issued a recall of millions of contaminated bottles...
...home, Wolfe practices what he preaches: he gave up cigarettes eight years ago, and avoids saccharine-sweetened drinks and processed foods. Like Nader, he avoids the party circuit. Nevertheless, he has become an accepted part of the Washington scene, not so much a noisome pest as a comforting, if disquieting, presence. Even FDA Commissioner Kennedy says of his nemesis: "If we didn't have Wolfe around, our society would be poorer...
...become so confusing that many voters have no idea what a Yes or No vote means on tax classification. That alone keeps business hopes alive. Every single office-holder and candidate for statewide office in Massachusetts, Democrat or Republican, is in favor of Question One (including Ed King). Ralph Nader calls it crucial. Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, as part of his machine-building, is banking his political future on it, in part because he realizes that its failure will mean angry homeowners storming City Hall to protest skyrocketing property taxes. And yet, by planting confusion in the voter...