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...famous television commercial first aired six years ago, poultry tycoon Frank Perdue uses a competitor's frozen chicken to hammer a nail into a board. Perdue's point is simple: the law is absurd. Current rules permit poultry frozen hard as a bowling ball to be thawed at market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans...
...first day of renewed trade talks between the U.S. and Japan broke off without any new developments. The Geneva talks are scheduled to end tomorrow, but could continue into next week in an effort to hammer out an agreement beforescheduled U.S. sanctions against Japanese luxury import cars are implemented next Wednesday.Both sides are refusing to budge from their positions. TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl reports: "All the forces are in play for a genuine trade war." But Baumohl expects some sort of concessions from Japan: "This is a fight the Japanese think they're going to lose." The U.S. needs...
...with fellow soldiers Tarek, Jay, Ted, Sean, Amanda, Peter, Darren and Dave than anyone not drawing a salary since I've been here. I've discovered their beauty when compared to the outside world, thanks to Pete who let me discover them on my own rather than try and hammer them into my head...
...Clinton today declared the 61-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor." Foster will testify Tuesday before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has threatened to block a full Senate vote on the controversial nomination, said the GOP will hammer at the Administration's belated disclosures that Foster had supervised hundreds of abortions. "This is about telling the truth," said Dole. "This is about the White House leveling with the American people and not letting it drip, drip, drip out as the American people find out." For his part, Foster...
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