Word: myerson
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...wasn't suggesting for a minute that the law be changed, but Bess Myerson, onetime Miss America and now New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, did sound a bit wistful as she told a Daily News columnist how the medieval French used to keep merchants honest. A royal edict of 1481 held that "anyone who sells butter that contains stones or other things to add to the weight will be put into our pillory; then said butter will be placed on his head until entirely melted by the sun. Dogs may lick him and people offend him with...
...Roger B. Myerson of South House and Newton; Paul D. Phillips of Lowell House and Washington, D.C.; Jeshus J. Schwartz of South House and Little Nock, N.Y.; James B. Steinberg of Dunster House and Wellesley Jonethan D. Victor of South House and New York City; and, Bradford B. Walters of Currier House and Highland park...
...Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games-can it really be a finger-shaped monster? So it appears...
...York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, 48, best symbolizes the clout of official consumer advocates. Myerson, who was Miss America in 1945, is paid $35,000 a year. She has worked, wheedled and fought to gain power for her agency, including the right to write and enforce its own regulations against deceptive advertising, spurious vocational schools and high-pressure collection agencies. Her four-year-old, 350-member department is buttressed by a $3.5 million annual budget, and has a young legal staff that is empowered to move swiftly to prosecute businessmen who break consumer laws...
...Banfield co-authored a book entitled Politics, Planning and the Public interest with Martin Myerson, the current president of the University of Pennsylvania. However, Wilson said, "I asked Banfield if that had anything to do with it. He said that Myerson being president of Pennsylvania was not the decisive factor...