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Some supporters of a ban believe the A.M.A. could strengthen its case by stressing that outlawing cigarette advertising is aimed at protecting minors. Critics of the tobacco industry scoff at its claims that cigarette ads are designed primarily to get smokers to stick with one brand or try another. "A rather small number of smokers switch," maintains Northeastern University Law Professor Richard Daynard. "The big payoff is in getting people to smoke, and the fresh market is entirely kids." Cigarette advertisers counter that they do not promote directly to a youth market, that they do not use sports or entertainment...
JOHN MARQUAND'S still'round, and that's no surprise; To him a Tommy's Special, a cheesesteak and fries. To dear dean Dean Whitla, some brand new red pencils But watch out, CUE editors, and stash all those stencils. And let's not forget that tall guy, John Fox: We'd love still to schmooze, have long detailed talks. But he won't anymore, so we shift our greetings To Sally Falk Moore, who seems always in meetings. To Davis, Dingman, and Ellen Porter Honnett A vocabulary lacking the two words "no comment." A salute to Mike Spence...
...much fun, they decided, that very soon they were drinking it in bacchanalian quantities. Brand new Beaujolais was the young wine of choice. made and then bottled at extraordinary speed from grapes harvested only a few weeks earlier. No fashionable cafe was complete without it: the more...
Besides selling reruns Murdoch will be able to offer the independents some brand-new shows produced by 20th Century-Fox's studios. This so-called first-run syndication business is flourishing right now. Among the biggest hits: Entertainment Tonight, Wheel of Fortune and People's Court. The Fox studio still lags behind such rivals as Paramount Television and Tribune Entertainment, an independent TV group that produces the cop opera Dempsey & Makepeace. 20th Century-Fox now makes only four shows for first-run syndication, including $100,000 Pyramid and Dance Fever. At the moment, Murdoch is in no hurry to assume...
Welcome to the world of the gray market. Embraced by bargain hunters at the same time that it is cursed by conventional retailers, the gray market thrives by selling brand-name cameras, consumer electronics, personal computers, cars and even excavators without the imprimatur of a manufacturer's authorized distributor. The products do not have either the standard warranty or the higher markup. Unlike black-market trafficking in stolen or counterfeit goods, gray-market trade is perfectly legal and has even been encouraged by the Reagan Administration...