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...last year, making it the company's No. 1 flavor. Haagen Dazs says it will "vigorously defend the lawsuit" and "aggressively pursue cancellation" of the trademark. Haagen Dazs contends that pralines and cream is a generic name that should be available to all companies, just like chocolate chip and butter pecan...
That is a hotly debated argument. The Reagan Administration carefully refrained from calling the MX a bargaining "chip," which would imply a willingness to trade the system away. Even if the MX were used in the talks, moreover, that would provide no guarantee that its status would remain permanently negotiable. The Ford Administration conceived of the cruise missile largely as a bargaining item, for example, but the U.S. has since been reluctant to place cruise missiles, especially the sea-launched variety, on the table. The only major weapons system ever to serve as true trade-off material was the antiballistic...
...Court has snipped at the boundaries of Warren Court precedents--too timidly for some conservatives; heavy-handedly to many liberals' way of thinking. The process has been especially prevalent in criminal-justice cases, and the court, having again scheduled a hefty batch of such rulings this term, continued its chip-chip-chipping away last week by taking a new chunk out of the Miranda rule. That familiar doctrine requires police to advise detained suspects of their rights to remain silent and to obtain a lawyer. When a suspect "voluntarily" makes a damning admission before being advised of these rights, said...
...best of the new business games are three fast-paced simulation programs that re-create the stock, real estate and commodities markets: Blue Chip Software's Millionaire, Baron and Tycoon. For $60 each, these startlingly realistic games let players dip their feet into the volatile market for stock options or pork-belly futures--without having to take a bath...
...issue, the new arms negotiations will reopen the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and negotiations on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), which centered on Europe-based nuclear missiles. While not ruling out Star Wars as a matter for discussion, Reagan has said publicly that it is not a bargaining chip to be traded away for progress on other issues. That is an understandable stipulation: whether or not Reagan would be willing to negotiate Star Wars, it would make no sense to do so before sitting down at the bargaining table...