No doubt some utility companies deserved to be punished for moves they made either tocopewith the deregulation of the 1990s or totake advantage of this new freewheeling environment.
They calculate that if a rightist government is elected this summer, it will have an awful lot of unpopular work to do: both to get public finances in shape (not least under pressure from Brussels) and tocopewith an ageing population it will have totake on the public-sector unions, slim the civil service and reform pensions, tax, education and health care.
"After years of helping veterans of the Vietnam and Gulf wars copewith the health effects of toxic battlefields, we have learned that we must take exposures to toxins seriously to ensure that this generation of service members does not face the same difficulties, " the congressmen say in the letter to be sent Monday to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.