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...WEEKS" is appropriate for a moving company advertisement, but for a laboratory looking for human "research subjects? For their purposes, the hospital's advertising techniques are completely uncalled for. In essence, they are treating the matter as Saatchi and Saatchi would treat a Coke ad, and that's not right...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Selling Our Bodies | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

...addition to viewing the tape, the 18 jurors and alternates (who include 15 women) heard sordid stories of drug use and sexual escapades from Moore and Linda Creque Maynard, a friend of Barry's former pal convicted coke salesman Charles Lewis. Maynard described how Barry overpowered her and forced her to have intercourse with him at a Virgin Islands hotel in March 1988. Dixie Lee Hedrington, another Virgin Islands woman who claimed that she had been harassed by the mayor, testified that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marion Barry: I Guess You All Figured That I Couldn't Resist That Lady | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...Moore, made Barry "paranoid." During one meeting at the home of a friend, the mayor asked Moore to check out an empty, dark-windowed van parked outside; on another occasion, she testified, Barry thought a blinking light on the Washington horizon was a surveillance device. She described buying coke for the mayor, once delivering $40 worth of crack to him in his District Building office and another time receiving drug money hidden in a magazine from him during a city budget hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marion Barry: I Guess You All Figured That I Couldn't Resist That Lady | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...selling the bulbs across the Continent. In Poland, Italian automaker Fiat, in partnership with a Polish company, plans to build 1.5 million subcompacts during the next ten years. In East Germany, Coca-Cola is pouring out $140 million to turn six aging state-owned soft-drink plants into gleaming Coke bottlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Kids on the Bloc | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...Bill is prepared to rewrite that line to read: "throw him in the super-jumbo cup of Diet Coke in the next room." For $40,000, Bill will move the scene to the next room and show the Duke actually being drowned in a large Diet Coke (logo prominently displayed). For $60,000, the murderers will also drink the Diet Coke and comment on its thirst-quenching qualities after their heavy labors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: These Foolish Things Remind Me of Diet Coke | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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