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...between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and those it is charged with overseeing. By law, the department must promote agriculture and protect the public safety. In fact, the balance has always tilted toward the needs of industry rather than consumers, as Espy himself confirmed last year. In a private tape-recorded conversation in June 1993, the Secretary initially rejected the idea of warning labels on meat and poultry. Said Espy after only four months on the job: "Some consumer groups would like to tell people that this ((product)) may contain pathogens that could lead to so-and-so. We wouldn...
Last fall, amid criticism that he had increased red tape since he took over as race czar in the summer of 1992, Epps combined two committees into the Faculty Race Relations Advisory Committee to the Harvard Foundation...
...proposed "reform" was the council's attempt to make it more difficult for students to get refunds of their "contribution." Students can currently obtain a refund of most of their contribution by checking off a box on their term bill. But following in the effort to bring the red tape of Washington to Harvard, the council to created a bureaucracy of its own for distributing refunds...
...most notable aspects of yesterday's funeral service for Ray Shapiro was the reading of the transcript of two tape recordings that Even had made-one for his family and one for his friends...
...faces trial in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that it conspired with a unit of South Africa's De Beers mining company to fix the price of industrial diamonds. GE vigorously denies the Justice Department charges. Meanwhile, the FBI armed a GE whistle-blower with a hidden tape recorder last year to probe charges that the company had repeatedly ignored warnings about electrical problems that could compromise the safety of its aircraft engines. Not only has the whistle-blower brought a multimillion dollar suit against GE (the company calls the suit "frivolous and outrageous"), but the Justice Department...