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Federal research grants in the past few years have been accompanied by increasingly restrictive terms, recent contracts with traditionally liberal agencies like the EPA and Department of Health and Human Services have included provisions for stricter publication review, technical direction by the sponsor, and funding rules...
...Warday, Stricter and Kunetka...
...intimate connections, however, Gray is not just a political fixer. The rules of lobbying have changed since the days when the legendary Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran could pick up the phone and deliver the goods for a client. As federal regulations have grown ever stricter in the past 15 years, the number of registered lobbyists has quadrupled. There are now about 6,500, or just over twelve for every member of Congress. But while this growing cacophony of special-interest groups is fighting to be heard, lobbying has become more open, thanks to the full-disclosure demands...
...both counts. Says Levy: "If we can get everyone to lower his cholesterol 10% to 15% by cutting down on fat and cholesterol in the diet, heart-attack deaths in this country will decrease by 20% to 30%." Other doctors are not so sure, and urge a stricter interpretation of the study. Says Dr. Edward Ahrens, a veteran cholesterol researcher at Rockefeller University: "Since this was basically a drug study, we can conclude nothing about diet; such extrapolation is unwarranted, unscientific and wishful thinking...
...court hedged further, but still in sufficiently, by stating that the business will still be liable for damages if the Bankruptcy Court decides by the "somewhat stricter standard" that the company acted correctly in repudiating the contract. Thus the option for suit remains open to unions at every point of the process...