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Major television networks finally pulled the harshest spots, while ABC went so far as to ban pharmaceutical commercials containing charges against rival drug companies. The networks feared people might become too confused by the back-and-forth exchanges and therefore ignore and-fourth exchanges and therefore ignore not only the charges leveled at the two drugs but also the important restrictions actually printed on the bottle. Other painkiller manufacturers fretted that the public might decrease consumption of all painkillers because they were so confused about painkiller restrictions...
...companies decrying the side effects of each other's products. You know, the ones in which a very serious-looking actor "discovers" that Brand X just might possibly be more harmful than, say, swallowing drain cleaner. The confusing charges and countercharges prompted the major TV networks to pull the harshest spots; ABC went so far as to ban all drug commercials that take potshots at rival remedies...
Duehay and Russell both say that the city officials have been devising measures to combat the harshest effects of Question...
...harshest of these attacks are true, SoftRAM 95 isn't just one more computer product that fails to live up to its hype; it's a hollow piece of Potemkin programming, devoid of the advanced, patent-pending compression technology touted in its packaging. In short, says Mark Russinovich, a University of Oregon computer scientist, "the thing is a fraud...
...cleverly lining up the support of the nation's G.O.P. Governors and the U.S. Conference of Bishops, Dole was able to save several nutrition programs as federal entitlements and modify three of the harshest provisions of the House's welfare-reform bill. His changes: Dole managed to ensure that the states would have to maintain a hefty chunk of their own welfare spending as a precondition for the receipt of federal funds; by leaving it to the states to decide, he blunted the House's insistence that cash assistance be denied to welfare moms under 18; and the "state option...