Word: nrc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weigh the inflationary consequences of their decisions and 2) to maneuver for greater price competition within the existing rules rather than press for outright deregulation of entire industries. Later this spring, Ford plans to preach price-consciousness to the heads of the ICC, CAB, FCC, FPC, FTC, SEC, FMC, NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) and the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission...
...scientists had, in effect, been overruled by a bureaucratic device. FDA referred the question of cyclamate safety to the National Academy of Sciences and its working arm, the National Research Council. The prestige of these bodies gives a false aura of objectivity to their findings, says Verrett, because the NRC passes the buck to an advisory panel of "experts," most of whom are partly supported by the industry concerned or institutions that it finances. Such men, says Dr. Verrett, "are sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Hertz Rent-a-Scientists.' " (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...Libertarian Party, though indistinguishable philosophically from NRC and also very new, has chosen a substantially different strategy...
...NRC tends to emphasize economic decontrol, "Paul Siegler, a second-year student at the Business School and chairman of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party, said last week. "We advocate decontrol of social issues with equal stress. By strongly opposing 'crimes without victims' and legislation of morality, we tend to get a better reception from the left...
...virtually no one in the Libertarian Party expects short-run success at the polls. Siegler and other Harvard members "The best we can hope to see as a result of our efforts is some realization that 'left' a,d 'right' are poor political terms," he said. "What we and NRC and people like Nelson are trying to do here in Massachusetts, for all our differences, is say the spectrum should be different. It should have one endpoint in tyranny and the other in liberty...