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Hubbard, a gregarious Indiana entrepreneur who ran Pierre du Pont's 1988 presidential bid, points out that those who object to the council's rulings are free to mount challenges in the courts. Hubbard says the council's goal is to improve the nation's competitiveness, not to shelter industry from regulation. "The higher the cost of the regulation, the higher the cost of the product to the consumer," he explains. "Our whole effort is to protect the consumer and the American worker...
Conservationists and local residents have managed to stop some developments. Last summer scores of people took to France's Gardon River in canoes to protest a government project that would have brought motorized trains, parking lots, a museum and even a shopping arcade close to the historic Pont du Gard, a 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct near Remoulins. The Pont already draws more than 2 million visitors a year. Historians, environmentalists and locals also joined forces against a commercial project planned for Chambord, one of the most illustrious of the Loire Valley chateaus. The castle was scheduled to become...
...found to be in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination. Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based manufacturer of automobile batteries, is just one of more than a dozen major companies -- among them, Gulf Oil, B.F. Goodrich, General Motors and Du Pont -- that now must reconsider fetal-protection guidelines...
...affected companies made clear that they would begin searching for alternative safeguards. Du Pont health-and-safety vice president Bruce Karrh said the company would continue to inform workers about workplace hazards. "The only difference," he says, "will be that instead of us making the decision, they'll have the option." Du Pont may also consider requiring women of childbearing years to wear additional protective clothing in high-risk areas. Denise Zutz, director of corporate communication at Johnson Controls, said her firm would also "doubtless consider going back to some sort of voluntary policy," as had been the company...
...Pont Co. produces an acetal resin used to make the Seattle Foot, a flexible, lifelike prosthesis. Among well-satisfied customers is Bill Demby, a former high school basketball player who had both legs amputated below the knee after being caught in a rocket attack in Vietnam. In a widely broadcast Du Pont TV commercial, Demby is shown taking a jump shot in a school-yard game...