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...First Amendment and a prime case of federal overreach, lawyers want Judge William Osteen, a onetime tobacco industry lobbyist, to rule against the FDA without a trial. Tobacco representatives argue that the next step is a total ban on cigarette sales. If enacted, the rule would certainly put a crimp in an industry where 90 percent of new smokers are under the age of 18. That's just the point, the Clinton Administration counters, that children under 18 are too young to make responsible decisions about smoking. Whatever the ruling, the tobacco industry is hedging its bets by aggressively expanding...
...such details, the arc of a relationship does begin dimly to emerge. A marriage that may not have been for love alone, nor for money, nor for political expediency grew to have a measure of each. "He did not object to marrying Jackie because it would put a crimp in his sex life," Klein writes,"...but he knew that marriage would bring certain wrenching changes. For one thing, he would have to trust Jackie with his deepest secrets." Both authors believe that ultimately he did so, and that the bond deepened as Kennedy realized how much the public loved...
Tupac Shakur isn't the type of guy to let a little thing like incarceration put a crimp in his plans. The rapper, who is the first singer to have an album reach No. 1 on the charts while in the joint, has married his fianca Keisha Morris. Shakur is serving a one-to-four-year sentence for sexual abuse. The honeymoon has been postponed...
...highly tangible. Rocked by $115 million in losses on its leveraged investments in bonds and other securities, Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, Ohio, said last week it was slashing 11% from all county budgets and was freezing spending for the next four years. Some of the harshest cuts will crimp children's services, as planned hirings of social workers are put on hold. "It means that if you should be making four visits to a child's home one month, you will be able to make only two," says David Reines, deputy county administrator. "These are children who have been...
...saved from cancellation after two seasons only with the help of a letter-writing campaign from fans. But in its third season, NBC moved the show to a weak time slot, on Fridays at 10 p.m., and cut its budget by $9,000 an episode, putting a further crimp in the already bargain-basement special effects. The show was gone after that season...