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...final hang-up to the agreement had to do with disclosure of another sort: the attorneys general demanded an end to further industry prosecution of whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, the former Brown & Williamson executive who wielded company documents to help press his claim that the tobacco company had deliberately manipulated nicotine levels. Wigand, now a high school science teacher, becomes free to make whatever public statements he wants...
Because marketing will become such a challenge, it should continue to be a powerful part of management within the industry. Jeffrey Harris, economics professor at M.I.T., estimates the industry spends $5 billion a year on advertising and wide-ranging promotions. Those budgets will shrink. But some venues, like point-of-sale displays, are still viable. Tobacco companies could open cigarette-only retail outlets for adults and pretty much do anything they liked inside...
...famous libel case--psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the New Yorker's Janet Malcolm--turned in part on whether an interview took place over goat cheese at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or breakfast at Malcolm's Manhattan home. Details matter, especially when they wound real people. Reich is safe: his meals--lunch, breakfast, whatever--were with public figures. Not so the reader who thought Reich was being true to what happened...
...That would be a step in the right direction," said Jeffrey S. Gleason '99. "I'd like to see the business succeed...
These aren't the usual dog-bites-man stories. They are signs of a growing epidemic. According to Dr. Jeffrey Sacks, an epidemiologist with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and author of a report released three weeks ago on the problem, dog attacks eclipse measles, mumps and whooping cough combined as a health threat to children. The number of dog bites that caused people to seek medical care increased from 585,000 in 1986 to 800,000 in 1994, a 37% jump during a period in which the dog population rose less than 2%, to 55.8 million...