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...issued new regulations for product safety and shuttered the exporters whose tainted chemical products and pet food additives were linked to the death of more than 100 consumers in Panama and thousands of pets in the U.S. The measures are "a combination of window dressing and substance," says Steve Ganster, the managing director of Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based consultancy. "The window dressing is important politically, but I think there will be true substance that, like anything in China, will trickle down and have an effect in the bigger market." But until that effect takes place, the drumbeat of product...
...best lines.With more gore at its climax than even “Goodfellas” could stomach, the film makes it no secret to the viewer that Scorsese is having fun with this movie. No more period pieces or boring biographies—this shoot-em-up ganster pic is just what he and audiences needed.Leading the uniformly terrific cast, Nicholson brings to life his most vicious character yet. Through the clouds of cocaine and the piles of bodies he leaves in his wake, Costello has no remorse, and Nicholson remains ever so cool and dry.Oh, and then there?...
...POLITICAL FIX takes many forms, but the most important, from LCN's view, is obtaining the cooperation of the policeman and the politicians. East of the Mississippi, particularly, it is the rare big-city government that is completely free of the fix. In Newark, corruption is rampant. One ganster recently confided to another that $12,000 a month flows to police superiors for protection? which sometimes goes beyond a shield for illicit activities. When he vacationed on the West Coast last Spring, for example, Thomas Pecora, a boss of Teamsters Local 97 as well as a Mafia man, took along...
...Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Waukegan, Ill. (see cut), designed by Chicago's William A. Ganster and William L. Pereira, is a serene, streamlined, shiplike structure of reinforced concrete, with broad sunlit decks where beds are rolled from the patients' glass-walled rooms...
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