Word: warnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next morning, as the sun came out, so did looters. "We're going to deal with you in the most severe manner." warned Alabama Governor Fob James as he ordered out the National Guard and set a dusk-to-dawn curfew. In Prichard, a Mobile suburb, Mayor A.J. Cooper issued a harsh order to deputies: warn looters twice, then shoot to kill if they do not surrender. Said Mobile County Commissioner Bay Haas of the hurricane's aftermath: "We just can't believe what we are seeing. The whole thing is incredible...
...House of Representatives. Sponsored by Rep. George Miller (D-Cal.), H.R. 4973 imposes a minimum of two years in jail and a fine of $50,000 on corporate executives who are aware that a product or business practice poses "a serious danger" to the public, but who fail to warn the government or warn affected employees. This comprehensive deterrent, striking personally at the corporate executive as well as the corporation, could quite literally revolutionize industry's present misuses and sloppy disposal of toxic substances, while public pressure on Congress, if relayed to the three regulatory agencies, could eliminate the more...
...September surge is particularly strong. Budget Director James McIntyre last month fired off to all agencies the most detailed memo yet on "controlling year-end buying," even including guidelines for buying furniture. At the next Cabinet meeting, probably this week, McIntyre, with the President's blessing, will warn that departments that shovel out money late this year will risk having their budgets reduced next year...
Beyond threatening to limit the tests, the other ETS response was to warn that test prices might increase. The reason, besides having to mail out the corrected tests, is that once the exams were avaialble for all to see, the College Board would have to think up new questions for every exam. "Questions are expensive to come up with," John Smith, media relations director for ETS, said last summer when the bill first passed...
...trade is obviously lucrative. In 1978 Donald Underwood, an osteopath, is said by the New York State attorney general to have earned $1 million from his now shuttered Long Island clinics. Some operators are switching to a new ploy: offering to implant human hair fibers. But dermatologists warn that fibers collected from a number of people can provoke even more serious problems...