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...Armenian-American lobbies in the U.S. have frequently let grievances against the Turks going back to the days of the Ottomans get in the way of sound policy, common sense and simple fairness. Congress has insisted on apportioning military aid to Greece and Turkey by a rigid and arbitrary formula that links the two, even though geography has assigned Turkey a far more active and vital mission on the front line of international peacekeeping...
When most people gaze at a newborn child, they see a bundle of joy. The makers of infant formula see something else: a bundle of loot. That's the argument of industry critics who claim that the leaders of the $1.5 billion formula business have unfairly boosted their prices 150% during the 1980s. Last week the state of Florida filed a lawsuit in federal court against the top U.S. formula makers: Abbott Laboratories (maker of Similac), American Home Products (Nursoy) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (Enfamil). The civil suit accuses the companies of fixing and inflating formula prices...
Antitrust accusations have dogged the firms for months. In a congressional hearing last May, Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio denounced the price increases and their "devastating" impact on government programs that buy infant formula for low-income families. Metzenbaum's hearing spurred a still active investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. The companies deny that any conspiracy took place...
...read on, perhaps expecting me to reveal a secret passageway out of the stacks or a magical formula that makes hardcovers temporarily invisible...
...held before mid-1992. Opinion polls, giving Labour a 14-point lead, showed that Heseltine would do better than Thatcher as Tory standard bearer. Accordingly, in a first-round vote by the 372 Conservative Members of Parliament, Heseltine won 152 to Thatcher's 204; under the complicated leadership formula, that was just enough, with 16 abstentions, to force a second ballot and encourage opposition to the Prime Minister...