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Such reports underscore a dismaying fact: for nearly every item of good news on the drug front, there is at least one bad-news bulletin. While the U.S. has made significant progress in curbing casual drug use, it has made far less headway on the problems that most trouble the public, hard-core addiction and drug-related violence. Last year the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that the number of current users of illegal drugs had fallen to 14.5 million from 23 million in 1985. But while there was a dramatic decrease in the number of occasional users...
...This is an item of enormous importance," said Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who until last night had been relatively silent on the issue. "What we are trying to do is work unanimously as possible with the City Council and business community to show that this City Council can move forward in a leadership role on the issues before...
...short, punchy and startling. ("Hatch chicks in your bra!" says an offering for Countryside magazine.) The intimate second person "you" is usually invoked in the first sentence and sprinkled liberally throughout the rest of the pitch. Prices are rarely rounded. (A $29.95 price tag helps people believe the item is still in the "$20 range.") Pitches often run to several pages. (Says Kikoler: "The more you tell, the more you sell.") The message is often printed on toned paper because warm colors apparently evoke a warm response. And usually there is a postscript. Some writers claim that the P.S. gets...
...sometimes say. A national survey released last June by Equifax found that direct-market mailings stimulated 54% of all Americans to make at least one purchase. One of every six Americans has made six or more purchases through the mail. By contrast, only 15% have bought at least one item through TV home-shopping clubs, and only 14% have responded to telephone solicitations...
However, the defense lawyers, from the firm of Morrison, Mahoney & Miller, should have thought twice before they included another item--a brochure for a seminar at which Newman is prominently featured. As it turns out, an attorney from Morrison Mahoney also appears in that brochure...