Word: relax
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Last week the NHTSA held the first of two public hearings on nine different alternative proposals that the agency has now put forward to relax or eliminate its impact standards, and insurance groups are incensed at all of them. Says Brian O'Neill, head of research for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: "Rescinding this regulation would cost the public a lot of money. This is an example of cost-benefit analysis producing any answer you want." Adds Wayne Sorenson, research vice president of State Farm Insurance: "The current standard is working. We are worried that cost considerations...
...delay its decision, the Supreme Court ruled last June that cost-benefit analyses cannot be required when setting federal health standards for the workplace. Nevertheless, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has had the number of its inspectors cut by 11%, and the Administration is determined to relax many of the OSHA regulations that businessmen feel are unduly costly...
...motto, Cassis tutissima virtus, that Jesse and Dot have never bothered to translate. (It means "Virtue is the safest armor" and contains a Latin pun: cassis also means "helm.") There are not many books. Helms wants to take up reading mysteries?Dot tells him that intellectuals peruse them to relax ?but for now a Churchill biography lies on a coffee table. There are autographed portraits: President Reagan, Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover. Helms has collected dozens of figurines of elephants, but not as a hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When...
...most Americans, Labor Day is a time to relax and reflect upon the hard-won rights gained by workers in decades past: the 40-hour week, paid vacations and sick leave, to name a few. But while millions pause next Monday to enjoy backyard barbecues or walks on the beach, a silent, almost invisible labor force will toil on without a break. In steamy sweatshops, scorched fields and cramped kitchens across the U.S., these underground workers will labor long hours for low pay under conditions that seem out of the pages of Charles Dickens...
...rebuilt society and ask us how 'we' can dare to destroy what they built. There is a wall between us." Then he breaks into French, as if the next idea cannot be expressed in German. "Youth is fed up. They want to live a little now, to relax and have...