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Indeed, many social scientists warn of a "shortage psychosis" and see the jittery outbreaks of minor hoarding during the '70s-runs on saccharin, beef, coffee and canning lids-as a sign of a major problem ahead. If uncertainty is allowed to continue, says Johns Hopkins Behavioral Scientist M. Harvey Brenner, "then people are really likely to do panicky things...
...dark about the hazards of toxic chemicals they dealt with. Federal atomic authorities, it was disclosed last month, were encouraged by President Dwight Eisenhower to confuse the public about the risks of radiation fallout during the atomic bomb tests in Nevada in the 1950s; Government officials refused to warn inhabitants of nearby regions that they were absorbing possibly lethal doses of radiation...
...official in the University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday the Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) should warn members of the Harvard community before spraying the pesticide malathon on elm trees around campus...
...majority opinion, Justice White did warn judges to be careful that the discovery process is not used for harassment or delay, in press cases or any others. Indeed, it may be that lengthy pretrial discovery, as Lando endured, is a much greater threat to freedom of the press than questioning a reporter's state of mind. Said Columbia Law School Professor Benno Schmidt: "Knowing that someone could tie you up for days in pretrial discovery at huge expense might be enough reason not to publish a story...
...value to be treasured more deeply than tact or taste. "Nothing I wrote was untrue," she snaps, when he accuses her of humiliating him deliberately. She closes the discussion by citing her work's endorsement by contemporary society's highest authority: "I think I'd better warn you that I've had interest in a movie sale...