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Popular pressures have also played a role. As AIDS has spread, protesters have charged that the agency has been keeping lifesaving drugs out of the hands of victims. In fact, the FDA spent $5 million more than the $46 million Congress provided to seek a cure for the disease. With health-conscious Americans including less red meat in their diets, the FDA's thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only...
...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 House suggestion of $1,500 to Young's own desire for as much as $150,000 for each product. Those funds would be welcome, but they would represent a tiny fraction...
...between words and deeds by the government. We feel we might be entering a period of chaos." Already, Migranyan warned, a loose coalition of forces -- disgruntled members of labor bureaucracies, ethnic Russian nationalists and members of the Communist elite, or nomenklatura -- can be discerned that might eventually seek Gorbachev's overthrow. "The longer Gorbachev's reforms are stuck," said the Soviet analyst, "the greater the opportunity for his adversaries to organize against...
Saying he will seek new personal and professional challenges, the head librarian at the Loeb Library of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced last week that he would resign after 25 years...
Silber created a campaign committee Tuesday which will permit him to start raising money for a prospective run for the state's highest office. If he decides to run, Silber will probably seek the Democratic nomination for governor, according to several state legislators...