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...National Safety Council criticizes O.S.H.A. for other reasons. Says Robert Currie, assistant to the general manager of NSC: "I don't think you will see any significant payoff in terms of injuries prevented. A good safety program goes far beyond the law's requirements." Such sound programs are already in force at some companies, including Aerojet General, Du Pont, General Dynamics, Boeing, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Westinghouse and Firestone. Other employers could wisely copy from them. Unless many more do so and unless the Federal Government gets tougher, the toll of lives from on-the-job accidents...
...mind, was always under surveillance, imprisonment in my own house." She further suggested that the photographer's interest may not have been entirely journalistic when she introduced into the evidence a Christmas card from Galella. It depicted a short Santa apparently giving him money, with the legend: "The Payoff, starring Aristotle Onassis as Santa and Ron Galella as the Paparazzo" (Italian slang for freelance photographer...
...Sandy or Nick and Martha are just as important to many TV viewers as the sorrows of Little Nell were to readers a century ago-and just as gratifyingly hopeless. Says Kitty Barsky, a writer on both One Life to Live and All My Children: "This is the big payoff-to end up with everyone watching in tears...
...gift by company officials. Others suggest that she was about to be fired because of her abrasive personality and that she fabricated the memo to get even with ITT. The corporation has officially denied that the contribution to the G.O.P. was in any sense a political payoff, and insisted that there was no deal of any kind to settle the antitrust case...
...chance. Driven by pride and the promise of a $15,000 payoff for each player on the winning team, Thomas and the rest of the Cowboys rolled over Miami like an automated machine. In the battle of the quarterbacks, the Dolphins' Bob Griese proved no match for the Cowboys' Roger Staubach. Griese, who gave up a costly fumble and an interception, was stymied at every turn by the Cowboys' tenacious Doomsday Defense. Staubach, meanwhile, piloted the Cowboys' ball-control offense to perfection. Sending Running Backs Thomas, Walt Garrison and Calvin Hill through holes as broad...