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...Dunster House tutor's complaint about the use of University funds to purchase a toaster oven for Dunster's new kosher table has prompted a sharp response from the director of Harvard Dining Services and from several Orthodox Jewish students...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Tutor's Letter Prompts Sharp Response | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...opinion that, while providing kosher food is a commendable effort to meet the wishes of Harvard's diverse community, the purchase of a toaster oven, reserved exclusively for kosher use, is an example of improper partiality towards one group," Ignatiev wrote...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Tutor's Letter Prompts Sharp Response | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...currently making its way through Congress, would give the FDA commissioner emergency powers to pull any drug from the market. At present, about all he can do is jawbone a recalcitrant company into withdrawing a dangerous product. "It's easier for the Consumer Products Safety Division to recall a toaster than for the commissioner of the FDA to recall a dangerous drug," grouses a Capitol Hill staff member. Even so, the measure is strenuously opposed by both the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and the White House, which sees it as burdensome regulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Drug Safety Can Drug Firms Be Trusted? | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...news at the moment is NewTek's Video Toaster, a $1,595 plug-in board that attaches to Commodore's video-friendly Amiga computer. It gives operators a "frame grabber" to freeze images for computer manipulation, an animation program to create flying 3-D titles and a long menu of digital effects like the Star Trekkian "transporter" that can dematerialize people from the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights! Camcorders! Action! | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...pressures. That helped a lot when Seidman and Treasury officials began feuding publicly about how best to clean up the S&L mess. At one point the Treasury floated a proposal that the bailout be financed by a fee on bank deposits. Seidman ridiculed the idea as "the reverse toaster theory -- instead of the bank giving you a toaster, you give one to them." The White House started letting it be known that Bush was "interested in getting new leadership" on the S&L problem. "It all would have worked out amicably if they had not decided to attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Crisis in Banking: The Trail Boss of the Bailout | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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