Word: scorns
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...letter went mostly unnoticed for over a month until the Washington Post wrote a story about it, prompting the scorn of business groups, which said it would be too costly for small businesses. Within 48 hours of the story's appearance, OSHA recanted, saying the letter was meant to address only one particular firm. The reason behind the reversal seems to be little more than common sense. OSHA head Charles Jeffress, who, at the President's urging, presented the report to Congress this week, told congressmen that while it initially seemed to make sense that employers not shirk their responsibilities...
...book offers up strong opinions about the key players, some expected (book agent Lucianne Goldberg is Mephistophelian), some not (much lampooned Lewinsky lawyer William Ginsburg didn't do too badly). But as a former prosecutor, Toobin reserves his greatest scorn for Kenneth Starr, whom he portrays as unqualified, unprincipled, politically biased and lacking in common sense. Toobin's thesis is that the real vast conspiracy wasn't the right-wing one Hillary famously charged was behind the scandal, but a more subtle attempt by the legal system to circumvent the political process through an "after the fact election." That...