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...true. In its next $10 million worth of Listerine ads-about a year's budget-Warner-Lambert must insert this statement: "Listerine will not help prevent colds or sore throats or lessen their severity." In the course of its review, which began in 1972, the FTC found that Listerine was no more effective in combatting colds than warm water. Doubtless Warner-Lambert will bury the admission as inconspicuously as possible in ads declaring that Listerine does cure bad breath-another old claim...
...California Democratic primary, this sort of language compels one who regards oneself as a liberal to think about trying to find a new man. To be sure, Carter's appointments have been sound from the liberal perspective. The names of Joseph Califano at HEW, Michael Pertschuk at FTC, and Andrew Young at the U.N. immediately come to mind. But it is policy, not appointments, which shapes the course of nations. The Democratic Party has not traditionally accepted a defeatist philosophy of government, a philosophy that Carter seems to be adopting. The year 1980, therefore, may turn...
...record of his "correspondence" with the FBI on the subject. Commercial firms can-and do-try to use Government files as a marketing aid. Example: one company attempted unsuccessfully to get the names and addresses of all people who had bought tax stamps for home wine making. The FTC, the Food and Drug Administration and the Defense Department are constantly turning back efforts by firms to acquire trade secrets of competitors. Says Barbara Keehn, the FTC Freedom of Information chief: "It's a form of industrial espionage, except that they do it under the law. We get very...
...large corporations as a means of enforcing ethical behavior has gone nowhere. A bill that would make it easier for consumer cooperatives to get bank loans squeaked by the House with one vote, but is stalled in the Senate. A measure that would have helped consumers fight adverse FTC decisions was rejected by a House committee earlier this year...
Significantly, the FTC found Blue Cross maintained its lowest ratio of hospital days per 1000 members where HMOs have the greatest share of the market. The implication drawn by the report is that Blue Cross did indeed respond to HMO competition by including preventive care in their packages and thus keeping their members out of hospitals...