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Haroz said Wednesday the case "still sits in limbo." He said he has no idea why it has been delayed for so long. Federal court clerks said recently there is a backlog of cases and that they could not predict when the Largey suit would come up for trial...
Most of the economists predict that corporate profits will decline through 1975's first half. Heller foresees no near-term surge in consumer spending...
...expected that he too, despite personal misgivings, will decide that some reform is essential. Said John Gardner, chairman of the citizens' lobby Common Cause: "We got more than we had expected-other than in the area of public financing of congressional elections." Gardner and other observers predict that by 1978, public funding of House and Senate races will also be a fact...
...that sufficient evidence to ban the agricultural chemicals? No, argued Shell: cancer in the mouse alone cannot predict the likelihood of cancer in man. But Administrative Law Judge Herbert L. Perlman, who reviewed all testimony and scientific evidence gathered during EPA's hearings, had a different view. "Dieldrin has probably accumulated in the body tissue of every individual" in the U.S., he said. It would therefore be "irresponsible in the extreme" to wait until a wave of human cancers provides proof of the chemicals' suspected danger. The EPA agreed, noting that slightly more expensive substitutes are available...
...afield the hunt for the dangerous gas will go is hard to predict. Some scientists fear that burning plastic products in dumps or incinerators releases VC into the air. Others even worry that VC might be emitted from auto seat covers in cars that have been parked all day in the sun. Beyond that loom potential dangers from scores of other contaminants in man's everyday products. As more is learned about them, more bans and controls are likely...