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...Justice Department confirmed last week that it has begun a probe of the salty-snacks industry; insiders say it is focusing on Frito-Lay. The action was all the more unexpected because other companies have amassed even larger shares of their respective markets without government eyebrows being raised (see chart). But Justice is said to be looking hard at Frito-Lay's use of shelf allowances, a common retailing practice in which manufacturers pay stores up to $100,000 a foot for desirable shelf space. Among other things, investigators want to know if Frito-Lay has been purchasing more space...
...pull-out chart in the June 3 issue of The Nation excellently highlights these tentacles of the media octopi. The accompanying article, by Mark Crispin Miller of Johns Hopkins University, credits the federal government for allowing the perpetuation of the media trusts and for permitting their pernicious effects on our culture. He writes of "the true causes of those enormous ills that now dismay so many Americans: the universal sleaze and 'dumbing down,' the flood-tide of corporate propaganda, the terminal inanity of US politics. These have arisen not from any grand decline in national character nor from the plotting...
...addition to its passive main character, "Dead Man" subverts the Western genre by relying on visual and sound effects, rather than plot events, to chart the progress of the character. The film is shot in black and white, an effect which "was built into the story from the moment I started imagining it," says Jarmusch. "A guy goes into a world that becomes very unfamiliar to him and the black and white allowed that kind of eerie, unfamiliar quality to be maintained." The use of black and white was necessary to further dismantle the Western rubric because "the color values...
...Allendale, New Jersey. "I can spend $4 and change for just one box and have it gone in less than a week." Since World War II, no food category has had more price increases than cereal, which easily outdistanced the rate of inflation for groceries (see chart). But consumers began balking in 1994, angered by relentless price hikes. Last year sales of cereal began to drop...
...Katarina Witt, but what did she lose?" says Wetter. "I see lots of adults in treatment who say, 'I never had a childhood. I wanted to be a doctor, so I spent all my time at the library doing a biology project, but I never played soccer.' " You can chart the arc of life today by visiting the psychology section of any bookstore, he says. "On the one side, you've got books on how to raise achieving, successful children. And across from that, you've got books for adults on how to overcome your depression and increase your self...