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...midst of a protracted shakeout, and drugmakers are in turmoil. Last week even Procter & Gamble, the nation's leading household- and personal-products company, announced it will close 30 plants and eliminate 13,000 jobs in an effort to meet the prices of discount and private-label competitors. In times like these, they used to say that a sneeze by the American economy gave Detroit a bout...
...LABEL: CAPITOL...
...than an active social force; its members can't even agree on a name. The term "twentysomething" dates quickly, while "Generation X" is meaningless to most of the people it's meant to describe, according to a recent poll by MTV. Nonetheless, the ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political...
...LABEL: ISLAND...
...LABEL ESSAY IS RATHER INTIMIDATING," SAYS Michael Kinsley. "It makes you think, far more than when writing a weekly column, that you need to say something for the ages." Funny, he doesn't sound intimidated -- even though his Essay in this week's magazine does endorse "squeamishness" as a "healthy" attitude for yuppies confronting the servant problem. The rest of the Essay, Kinsley hopes, "will annoy people left and right" -- those on the left because he acknowledges that servants are necessary, those on the right because he recommends such steps as abolition of tipping and uniforms to lessen social distinctions...