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...CAMEL No more lurking around the playground. FTC says RJR is just blowing smoke about not targeting kids...
...good faith or live up to its promises,'' said association chief executive John Garrison. As the industry hastens to reach a settlement, pressure to curb and punish its practices continues to mount: on Wednesday, even as the FTC charged R.J. Reynolds with unfair advertising practices, charging that its Joe Camel campaign targets children, the state of Florida decided to dump $825 million worth of tobacco stocks invested in its retirement plan. In July, the first class-action suit against the industry is set to begin in Mississippi...
...fellow Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning (1904-97) brought into painting a new sense of the contradictions of American culture and made erotic poetry out of them. De Kooning, the "slipping glimpser," as he called himself, was open to a constant stream of momentary impressions: smiles from Camel ads, shoulders from Ingres, pinups and Raphael--high and low, everywhere. In this way he became a bridge to a younger generation of painters, chiefly Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, who carried forward his exploration of the American vernacular...
...contracts and remedies are framed in terms of a bushel of wheat, or a camel, the offspring of a camel and a load of dates--everything is stated in those terms, which we now are trying to make relevant and into feasible financing arrangements for...modern investors," Hayes said...
...companies would just force nicotine junkies to cough up an additional 25 cents a pack, which now averages $1.80. The industry would also scrap its outdoor advertising and remove human and human-like figures from remaining ads, thereby laying to rest the images of the Marlboro Man and Joe Camel...