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...four inches too low. Deeply hurt, Pinga asked himself: "My God, how can I be guilty? I haven't even had a trial." So he challenged the charges in court and spent $1,500 in legal fees to beat a $90 fine. His heart went out to the young OSHA inspector who broke down on the witness stand and admitted that her only qualification was a 40-hour series of OSHA seminars. But Pinga is convinced that his fight was worthwhile. Thumping a thick tome of OSHA regulations, he declares: "If this book existed when my dad came to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rage over Rising Regulation | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...year. The older agencies?including the Interstate Commerce Commission (founded in 1887), the Federal Trade Commission (1914), the Food and Drug Administration (1931), the Civil Aeronautics Board (1938)?impose limitations on particular industries. The newer agencies?the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1964), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), OSHA (1970), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (1972)?issue orders to institutions across the board. Their potential for change, and for damage, is far greater than their more circumscribed predecessors. Says Kristol: "This creates a lot of questions about who is running the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rage over Rising Regulation | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...Government during the primary campaign led some to believe that he would make the regulations less onerous. Now they can see no sign that he has or will. CEA Chairman Schultze contends that the Administration has brought about some improvement in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had gained well-deserved notoriety for enforcing niggling rules. That is news to executives, who find OSHA as petty-minded as ever. Grant Simmons Jr. complains that OSHA rules amount to "major capital programs imposed willy-nilly on business with a virtual carte blanche"-sometimes to modify plants that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...regulatory goals. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, for example, is on the verge of requiring many manufacturers to further reduce noise in their plants, but the Council on Wage and Price Stability has reckoned that the price for business could run up to $32 billion a year, and OSHA may be obliged to retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: A Plan for Fighting the Double Digits | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...OSHA inspector had ruled that the rock's presence constituted a hazard unless a warning sign was posted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 24, 1976 | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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