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...enormous public sympathy and managed to convince most Tylenol consumers that [the consumers] owed the company cooperation in saving the product." Tylenol's share of the market has climbed back to nearly 29%, despite the fact that other nonaspirin brands, including Anacin-3, Panadol and Datril, are offering stiffer competition than the company faced a year...
...years after the EPA first circulated draft rules governing the chemical, the EPA announced an emergency ban on soil injection of EDB, only the second such action in agency history, and moved to stop fumigation in 30 days. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also announced a new, stiffer exposure limit for the estimated 57,000 who risk breathing EDB on the job. Scientists at OSHA have concluded that the current standard is 200 times too high to protect workers from the chemical, one of the most dangerous the agency says it has ever regulated. But then David Stockman...
...convened a two-day, closed-door "summit" of farm and agricultural business leaders to thrash out long-range methods for cutting costs and surpluses and aiding farmers. High on the agenda: the nation's sinking share of farm export trade, resulting from a strong dollar, world recession and stiffer competition from overseas...
...tossing out the sentence, the court noted that all of Helm's crimes were relatively minor, that none involved violence and that the punishment he received was the same or stiffer than that imposed in the state for far more serious crimes. The decision may prompt judges to be less draconian in sentencing small-tune offenders, but civil liberties lawyers expect no flood of petitions from current prisoners, in part because most state sentences cannot be challenged after 120 to 200 days...
...Stiffer State and Local High School Graduation Requirements. Specifically, the report suggests at least four years of English, three years apiece of math, science and social studies, a half year of computer science and, for the college-bound, two years of a foreign language...