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...appeal OSHA rulings to an independent, three-member Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), appeal for exemptions from specific health and safety standards (upon demonstration of equally effective systems or procedures), and, if they qualified as small businessmen, apply to the Small Business Administration for longterm loans to offset financial problems resulting from efforts to comply with the OSHA standards. Finally, the legislation established the National Institute of Occupational Safety (NIOSH) within the department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to perform the research necessary to develop adequate OSHA standards...
...course. Long Beach harbors seldom entice millionaires' yachts, and the local royalty consists entirely of wax dummies aboard the Queen Mary museum. But Grand Prix supporters predicted that the challenging 2.02-mile circuit designed by former Grand Prix Winner Dan Gurney and a $265,000 prize purse would offset the deficiencies...
...others on the floor sucked earnestly at joints. Whenever I wandered in here, stripped to a tee shirt and sweating--anomalous among the taxidermic figures of this room--I left hastily. These are the two "ideals of Saturday night," my roommate Tom says: the frenzied dancing of one room offset by the cocktails of the quiet room...
...because the terms of the bequests specify the sex of the recipient. Even though there is a difference between the amount of the restricted money available only to one sex--with men coming out on top by about $7000--Steiner says the situation is "equitable." The apparent inequality is offset by the fact that there are fewer women here than men, and thus a woman has the chance to get more prize money than a man. Still, Steiner sees a "symbolic" inequality wherever sexual distinctions are made, and these restricted prizes amount to a "wart" on the face of this...
Despite the impending harvest failures, wheat prices so far have moved upward only slightly. A big crop in other parts of the U.S. could offset the expected losses. Nonetheless, many individual farmers stand to be wiped out by this year's losses. Says Minnesota Agricultural Expert John Wefald: "Some farmers are going to kiss rural America goodbye and good night...