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...lack of information about their health effects. In recent years, its provisions have been strengthened, and pesticides introduced now do have to undergo thorough testing. A process of re-registration, carrying out and verifying new tests for chemicals approved under old standards, was also loosely mandated by the newer provisions of FIFRA, but the EPA has been slow to tackle this task. In 1972, Congress directed the agency to complete the re-registration process by 1976, but EPA then obtained extensions to 1977, 1978, and finally the removal of any set deadline. By the middle of last year...
Industry analysts fear that if the operating companies cannot move deftly in some of the newer regulatory areas, they will have even more trouble when they try to adjust to direct competition, a relatively new experience. Admits Richard Santagati, who heads NYNEX's business-information-systems sales staff: "There's a steep learning curve to overcome...
Perhaps some entrepreneur will try to revive the genre of last words by enlisting videotape, a newer form of theater. Customers could write their own final script - or choose appropriate last words from the company's handsome selection ("Pick the goodbye that is you"), and then, well before the actual end, videotape their own official death scenes. The trouble is that most people tend to be windy and predictable when asked to say a few words on an important occasion. Maybe the best way to be memorable at the end is to be enigmatic. When in doubt, simply mutter...
Hammond Chaffetz, 76, an antitrust lawyer in Chicago, has been suspicious even longer, going back to New Deal days. Says he: "We could never trust the Russians then, and we cannot now. They have newer equipment than ours and the strongest conventional forces in the world today. If we gave up competing with them and let them have the balance of power, Europe would immediately give...
...countries, there is nothing wrong with intervention that can be labeled anticolonialist. Notes International Law Professor Rosalyn Higgins of the London School of Economics: "The preoccupation with self-determination and ending colonialism has led to stresses and strains on the old limits on the use of force. In the newer trend, lending aid to gain self-determination is accepted." For Marxist-Leninist governments, a double standard is even easier to achieve, since Communist ideology rejects non-Marxist forms of government. Says Alfred P. Rubin, professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The Soviets can get away with major...