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...politicians have engaged in the classic 'bait and switch' scheme. They brought us into the store with an icon of Richard Allen Davis, but now that we're in the store, it is full of pizza thieves and pot smokers...
...argues William Schultz, one of the agency's deputy commissioners. And there is nothing to stop companies from sending only those articles that mention their products favorably and omitting negative reports. The worst outcome, say critics, would be if manufacturers used the relaxed rules to adopt a sort of bait-and-switch research program. They could, for example, seek approval from the FDA for an indication that is easy and inexpensive to prove but not widely useful. Then they would be free to market their drug for more common and complicated conditions without having to pursue the more rigorous research...
...from Arizona to South Carolina to Georgia, to Mississippi and Florida--Gramm nipped at his heels. In unsolicited call-ins to radio shows and newspapers along Dole's route, Gramm touted his showing and urged reporters to taunt Dole about Iowa. They did, but Dole didn't take the bait. "Iowa wasn't my personal stumble," Dole told me last week. "My organization should have done better. We should have won. But my stumble--and it could do me in, I know--will only come if I lose my cool. I haven...
...RICKLES, AUTEUR BAIT...
...attempt to restore a series of prohibitions that Clinton overturned in his first week in office--among them, bans on fetal-tissue research and importation of RU-486, the French abortion-inducing drug. Clinton vetoes are expected, but, says Reed, some of the legislation is meant to be "veto bait," couched in relatively reasonable terms to give the impression that Clinton's abortion stance is radical...