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Commission Chairman Michael Pertschuk, who was appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1977, has become the lightning rod of criticism against the FTC. An ebullient, Yale-trained lawyer with a crusader's rapid-fire zeal, Pertschuk has further raised the ire of both congressional leaders and business. Senator Ford accuses him of turning the agency from law enforcement to social planning. Last year a federal judge banned Pertschuk from all involvement in the children's television case, concluding that he had become too biased against the cereal companies. Other critics charged that Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator...
Although Japan has prospered under the LDP, the nation has neglected some of the evils of rapid industrialization--pollution, increasing comptetition for higher education, overcrowding, inflation, substandard housing and a marked disparity in the economic security of the employees of large and small businesses. The LDP's political Ohira and his wounded party should stop playing Hatfield and McCoy; if not for Japan, for their own self-respect...
Long ago, a New Republic editor, seeking a name for a new column, glanced up from his paper while riding a New York subway and saw the words "Brooklyn Rapid Transit." He reversed the initials; thus TRB. The BRT has vanished; Strout, far from it. While his collected essays do not form a cohesive whole, they shine individually with the glimmer of a cynical idealist. He returns every week, brandishing only his intelligence and wit. But with those tools TRB has earned his royal...
...ECAC play) didn't make it a contest--in fact, the Crimson battled back from a 2-0 deficit to knot the score, 2-2, at one point. But the favored Friars kept a territorial advantage throughout and broke the game wide open with three rapid-fire man-up goals in the second period...
...CLUM's wanton disregard of the ordinary decencies in this matter demonstrates its unfitness to judge others on questions of due process," Bergenheim said. "All friends of civil liberty must be saddened by the CLUM's rapid descent into this hypocritical variant of McCarthyism," he added...