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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using its new muscle, the agency became the nation's nanny. An FTC administrative judge challenged Pitching Star Vida Blue's pitches for drinking milk because blacks often have trouble digesting milk. The commission proposed a truth-in-menu rule that might mean, for example, that no restaurant could offer as Maryland crab any crustacean that had crawled into Delaware. The agency intensified a holy war against breakfast cereal companies; it has proposed breaking them up and banning ads for presweetened cereals from Saturday morning's TV cartoon shows. An FTC-proposed rule warned that such...
...Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator. In the past few months the chairman has softened his voice, and he even appeared jokingly at a staff party with a black raincoat draped over his head. He answers the accusations against him by saying that they reflect the agency's new effectiveness and that "the rules are beginning to bite...
...producing no ideas that seem much different from or better than Carter's but only an array of me-too remedies that are eclectic yet oddly limited. The common thread that winds through nearly all is that Government can help the most by meddling the least. The new fashion for 1980 will not be spend and spend, elect and elect, but cut and trim and hope for the best. A preview of the leading challengers' economic plans...
...small is beautiful" philosophy to the realities of a $2.4 trillion economy. Brown convincingly argues that the nation's throw-away economy squanders scarce resources; yet he would vastly expand exploration of outer space even though the payoff is doubtful at best. He calls for a ban on new nuclear power plants and would give much more of a subsidy to solar power, though almost every study shows that over the next two decades solar can supply only a small fraction of the nation's energy needs, while nuclear power remains necessary. Most economists say that his call...
...positions for him on everything from a value added tax (he sees merit in the idea but thinks it falls too harshly on those who earn the least) to a constitutional limit on spending (only "as a last resort"). Connally favors faster write-offs for capital investment, proposes large new jolts of defense spending and wants deep, budget-wide cuts in just about everything else, basically by allowing attrition to whittle the federal payroll. To increase trade he, along with Reagan and Brown, calls for a North American common market. To spur savings Connally would create a "taxpayer...