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...unfairly claims their products are dangerous to eat. Agricultural lobbyists argued for these laws after apple growers saw their sales plummet following a 60 Minutes report that Alar, a chemical used in the apple industry, may cause cancer. The threat of libel, First Amendment advocates fear, could put a clamp on public debate of legitimate health concerns, especially as food producers explore new agricultural techniques such as irradiation, genetic engineering and fertilizers made out of recycled sewage. The first major legal test of the food-disparagement laws will be a Texas lawsuit, in which a group of cattle ranchers have...
...hard not to think that Anderson has made a conscious decision to clamp down on information about the Reubens show, considering how he clammed up. Whether the directive came from Reubens himself or from inside Carsey-Werner, it seems there is still fear about how the public and its guardians, network television, will feel about returning the one-time pop icon to the mainstream...
There probably is not much that can or should be done about this. Surely the Dean of Students shouldn't clamp down on new student activities; those activities are the lifeblood of this campus and they often change people's lives...
...architecture, its life, its spirit"--everything but its art, which Dada would supply. This image of the city as social compressor also comes out in Man Ray's neatly epigrammatic New York, 1917--a bunch of slats, stacked to mimic the setbacks of skyscrapers, held together by a C clamp...
Deciding who pays for unapproved uses is, in fact, a growing problem. For years insurers have recognized the importance of off-label prescribing and have agreed to reimburse patients for their prescriptions. Now many cost-conscious managed-care firms have started to clamp down on off-label reimbursements--especially if the medication is particularly expensive. "A physician and patient can argue with the insurer," says Dr. Howard Ozer, director of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University in Atlanta. "But if it goes on for too long and the patient can't pay for the drug...