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...were seen by many probusiness advocates as one important means of unshackling industry. But now, with the number of staffers at the agency down to 7,500 from a 1980 high of 8,100, even business lobbyists are not so sure. "The problems at the FDA stem directly from the deregulatory process," says John Cady, president of the National Food Processors Association. "They just do not have the resources to do the job correctly...
...they also color our perceptions and inform our concerns. Would anyone among us argue that it is reasonable or appropriate, for example, to demand a blow job for a bottle of Freixenet, or to call someone a "faggot" because he or she refuses to have sex? These concerns stem not from a desire to impose puritanical standards, but from a desire that a genuine sense of community and respect prevail at all times...
...Encourage cooperatives. Public resentment over the price-gouging practices of some cooperatives has given conservative bureaucrats an excuse to tax them heavily. But since the excesses of some cooperatives stem primarily from a lack of competition, the co-op system should be expanded, not constrained...
...Wall, of course, was built in August 1961 for the very purpose of stanching an earlier exodus of historic dimensions, and for more than a generation it performed the task with brutal efficiency. Opening it up would have seemed the least likely way to stem the current outflow. But Krenz and his aides were apparently gambling that if East Germans lost the feeling of being walled in, and could get out once in a while to visit friends and relatives in the West or simply look around, they would feel less pressure to flee the first chance they got. Beyond...
Still, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is enjoyable and effective. Many of the problems stem from the script, and the actors and director Carl B.J. Fox do very well with what they are given. On the basis of the production and the humor, it makes the Leverett Old Library worth spending your night...