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Although business executives grumble about the costs of relabeling, many manufacturers are philosophical about the reform movement. "I don't think the whole industry would be going through these changes without pressure from consumers," says Bob Pusey, a spokesman for Calistoga Mineral Water. "This is not a fad. The thing we're all going to have to get used to is that the consumer has a right to know and wants to know what is in food." The producers' major concern: that the FDA's new rules be consistent and easy to implement. "Already we're hearing about a number...
...very short people (though not very tall ones) with heightism ("discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
...very close to the street," says David Cole, 28, one half of C+C Music Factory, one of the hottest producing duos in dance music, a fad-mad, producer-reliant subspecies that has jumped out of the clubs and cornered the pop charts. "We were born in dance music. We are disco babies...
...growing up and playing out a predictable life- cycle change." Elmer Johnson, a Chicago lawyer and former executive vice president of General Motors, sees "a hardness of heart that has not yet begun to be broken." John Kenneth Galbraith, the eminent liberal economist, dismisses the trend as a bicoastal fad among fast-trackers. Says he, with amused cynicism: "I just think it's pure horse...
Colleges are as subject to fad and fashion as the rest of society -- perhaps more, for the client base of students turns over quickly. But few scholars believe the current intellectual battles will end soon -- particularly as the confrontation permeates other levels of education. In the process, the American tradition of tolerance in diversity, an uneven tradition at best, may be strained as rarely before...