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...would think that receiving an award from the Commerce Department would be honor enough for any corporation. According to the Texas attorney general's office, you would be wrong. Last October General Motors' Cadillac division won the government's Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the right to mention the medal in its advertising -- a right GM exercised. The campaign had immediate results: lawyers for Texas complained that ads citing the award violated the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Newspaper spreads boasted that "167,000 applicants" had vied for the Baldrige when in fact only 97 had applied...
...other. It seems the forthcoming MGM-Pathe buddy flick, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, starring Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke, has the folks at Harley-Davidson and Philip Morris USA fretting about a dubious portrayal of two famous brand names. MGM-Pathe demurs, citing such precedents as Cadillac Man and The Coca-Cola Kid. But in New York City the studio is taking what appears to be the opposite side of the issue. MGM- Pathe is suing a gay and lesbian organization called the Pink Panthers, which patrols the streets to protect homosexual men and women from roving gangs...
...prove congenial. He has shown a shrewd feel for the city's odd blend of worldliness and parochialism. Playing to Manhattanites' penchant for embracing almost any outsider who professes himself instantly smitten with their metropolis, Maxwell arrived by yacht to start negotiations and, before stepping into a waiting Cadillac, spoke the tantric words, "I love New York." Recalling the tradition of the News as "the people's paper," Maxwell said, "I want it to be, first and foremost, the voice of New York for the ordinary man. It will assist the town with its fiscal problems. I would also hope...
...Control for an increase, that he offered his tenants alternative low-rent housing and moving costs, that he spent $800,000 in repairs and renovations and has waited six years without one penny of this money reflected in his rents, and that his tenants have lived four years in "Cadillac" apartments paying "Chevrolet" rents...
...immaculate 1961 Cadillac Coupe de Ville," says Pontifell. "Like the books, it might be considered old-fashioned, but both the car and the books combine the old and the new in a way that is aesthetically exciting and will be cherished forever...