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...story might have been just another ho-hum item in the trade newspapers, except for a striking fact. One company--and one man--stood to gain more than anyone else from the exercise in U.S. trade pressure. The man is Carl Lindner, 76, a Cincinnati, Ohio, real estate, insurance and banana tycoon who likes to boast of his friendships with U.S. Presidents and sometimes blusters about what his political connections can do for him. For more than two years, Lindner has showered money on some of the biggest names in Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike. At the same time, Lindner...
This week, as revelers around the world make their New Year's resolutions, one item is at the top of just about everyone's lists: "This year," we tell ourselves, "I'm going to eat right." The truth, though, is that we don't want to eat right. What we want is to eat whatever we feel like, in whatever quantity we want, without gaining weight or clogging up our arteries. And food producers are delighted to cooperate: supermarket shelves overflow with diet soda, sugar-free candy and, in recent years, fat-free cookies, crackers and snacks of all descriptions...
...former pipe smoker, Kessler has boldly pursued the regulation of tobacco as an addictive drug and has been particularly critical of cigarette ads aimed at children (he calls smoking a "pediatric disease"). One of his proudest achievements was making sure every item of processed food clearly lists its fat, fiber and calorie contents. "The nutrition facts labels changed literally every product in the supermarket," Kessler says. "You used to walk in and not know what to believe...
...Constitution requiring that the budget be balanced, but it fell one vote short in the Senate, where Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon defected, insisting it was a gimmick. At the moment, the House and Senate are crafting a compromise on another kind of budget-cutting measure, the presidential line-item veto. But with a Democrat in the White House, Republicans are in no rush to hand Clinton a scalpel...
...centerpieces of the Contract with America, the campaign platform on which the vast majority of Republican congressional candidates ran, was a balanced budget amendment that would ensure a balanced federal budget by the year 2002. In surveys done before the election, this item along with term limitations proved the most popular among the American public. Yet now, only a year later, public support for the Republican balanced budget plan has drastically eroded, the result of Democratic attempts to scare and confuse many voters through sensationalism and half-truths...