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...Practices Act. Newspaper spreads boasted that "167,000 applicants" had vied for the Baldrige when in fact only 97 had applied, and that the Commerce Department had praised Cadillac's engine, an assertion questioned by Commerce itself. GM also caught flak for several overly flattering paraphrases of a government handout accompanying the award. The 167,000 applicants are now absent from GM's ads, but the corporation stands by everything else and is meeting with the state's attorneys to resolve the dispute...
...building next door, relief workers distribute rations. Each day's handout brings a stampede as the villagers jostle one another to be next in line. So far, relief packets have been dropped on Ujantia twice from the air, but the efforts ended in disaster. Most of the items fell into the water; villagers snatched up those that landed intact before relief workers could distribute them fairly. Last week fresh supplies arrived by boat. Still, allowing just 9 oz. of rice and a packet of crackers for each person, the ! supplies are enough for only half the families. "I am going...
...Anthony's method yields results: the papers go faster now than when he started work a year ago, he says, and more businesses advertise in the publication. "If you let people know as they approach you what it's all about instead of just a handout, it does them a lot more good," he explains...
...that there exists a PC conspiracy here (one, in fact, we never made, because conspiracy connotes a collusion which we have not witnessed yet), Hart maintains that the flier itself is a child of the complicity of Harvard conservatives. The flier belongs to Sumner and me alone, something the handout states at its bottom. But, as her article demonstrates, classification and consequent dismissal is easier than refutation...
...inevitable controversy. "I don't think it's a novelist's job to give little moral lessons," says Ellis. But making moral judgments is precisely what he does, not only in the novel, with its hateful portrayals of Manhattan yuppies as mindless consumers, but elsewhere in the muddled handout that is intended to clarify his aesthetic. "The characters in all my novels are superficial," he writes. "They don't understand what's really going on in their own lives...