Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer. The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it intends to ban all over-the-counter cures for baldness (along with a number of alleged aphrodisiacs and other worthless nostrums). It is not banning any prescription drugs, notably minoxidil, an anti-high-blood-pressure medication that Upjohn is now testing on baldness. Nor is it opposed to hair transplants. It is forbidding only those obscure salves and creams that falsely promise an end to baldness. "These products do not prevent hair loss or grow hair," said an FDA spokesman, Edward R. Nida. "How you lose or keep your...
...stripped down to its basics--a road, a bar, a motel, an affair, a private eye, a murder, a pinwheeling series of betrayals--then customized with camera style. Strapped to a car fender, or sauntering at ankle level through a rowdy party, or tracking smoothly down a long bar counter (and over a passed-out customer), the Coens' camera is a participant in the action, and worlds hipper than anyone on-screen. "Hi, I'm here," it as much as says, "and I'm soooo smart." It is too; it creates elegant riddles of space and time, then solves them...
...heads with Volcker and with Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. After seriously considering efforts to kill the council, the President decided last week against such a drastic move. It is clear, however, that Regan will not take kindly to any economic advice that runs counter to his own beliefs. He had, for example, disputed Budget Director David Stockman's gloomy economic estimates. Stockman, already long wounded by his confession to the Atlantic Monthly in 1981 that federal budget figures are a meaningless numbers game, had been expected to leave after this year's spending battles...
...Ethiopians had fled to eastern Sudan. He also denied that bombing attacks against refugees had taken place. Nonetheless, the Ethiopian government last week ferried two planeloads of U.S., Canadian and West European diplomats to the south on an inspection tour of resettlement areas, in an effort to counter the skepticism of aid donors...
...last time a new name plate appeared at General Motors was 1926, when the company introduced the Pontiac. Last week another one was added. Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac suddenly got a baby brother. In GM's boldest plan yet to counter Japanese imports, Chairman Roger Smith announced that it would set up an entirely new company, called Saturn Corp., to produce its long-planned line of subcompact cars. Smith called Saturn "the key to GM's long-term competitiveness, survival and success as a domestic producer...