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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small agency in London's Soho district into an international behemoth: hard-nosed financial know-how. The Iraqi-born brothers convinced London investors a decade ago that the ad business was an intriguing play. The logic of global corporate expansion, they argued, demanded an agency that could provide one-stop shopping for multinational firms interested in advertising and marketing services that stretched from Asia to North America to Europe. Such an agency could help companies build worldwide markets for their brands and could reap extra profits from efficiencies of scale...
...number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only two tainted grapes were discovered), forced the agency to reassign up to one-third of all FDA inspectors for long periods of time. "When an emergency comes along," says one FDA official, "we stop doing things we were scheduled to do and divert people elsewhere...
With so many intractable problems facing the FDA, Sullivan's blue-ribbon panel is unlikely to be enough to stop the agency's decay. Says Democratic Congressman John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "It was an attempt to look like they were doing something, but they aren't and they won't." In an effort to find some creative financing for the FDA, the White House has disclosed that it is considering charging user fees to companies that seek FDA approval for products. The size of the proposed service charges has ranged from an official White...
...meeting of an AEC advisory committee indicated that enough was known then about releases of radiation at the Hanford plutonium plant near Richland, Washington, to raise concerns about workers' health. Yet it was decided at that meeting not to recommend closing Hanford temporarily while action was taken to stop the release of plutonium particles into...
...case, asked Vogel, "if reunification should happen, where is the threat to the rest of Europe? Please, let us stop thinking of reunification producing a Fourth Reich built on the ashes of NATO." One solution, he suggested, was to make the transformation of the East bloc a "European task. If there is concern about the re-emergence of a German superpower, the best of all ways to get a lever on it would be to invest in a West European relief and aid operation in East Germany and create a European orientation to that process...