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South Florida saw widespread price gouging in the form of $4 candy bars and $6 cans of baby formula. One store would not sell batteries without the purchase of a TV or radio. A woman filed for an $11,500 loss of household goods, but the address she gave investigators turned out to be in Biscayne Bay. A farmer submitted a photo of someone else's destroyed mobile home and a claim of $19,440; investigators later found his actual, undamaged trailer in Tampa, clear across the state...
...find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with genetically altered, artificial hormones" and "large amounts...
...Antitrust Division of the Justice Department brought this suit alleging that the Ivy (League) Overlap Group unlawfully conspired to restrain trade in violation of section one of the Sherman Act... by (1) agreeing to award financial aid exclusively on the basis of need; (2) agreeing to utilize a common formula to calculate need; and (3) collectively settling, with only insignificant discrepancies, each commonly-admitted student's family contribution toward the price of tuition...
...film's first half we watch Jack volley between his inexplicably loyal wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra) and his submissive moll Sheri (Juliette Lewis), all the while wrestling with his conscience. Because the formula would not be complete without a furtive villain force, Medak is compelled to introduce Russian mobster Mona Demarkov (Lena Olin) into Jack's dysfunctional life. Fueled by lust and fear, Jack is either chasing or being chased by this femme fatale from hell...
...addition, the compromises were minimal. "Schindler's List" is hardly designed from the pre-fabricated formula for box-office success. The movie is, after all, three and a half hours long and shot entirely in black and white...