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...says Howard Davidowitz, who owns a national retailing consultancy. "In a creative situation, you're really investing in one or two people. In a department store you may have a hundred vice presidents." Nonsense, says Frank Mori of Takihyo, a U.S. firm that owns 100% of the Anne Klein label, which is designed by Louis Dell'Olio, and 50% of the hot and successful Donna Karan line, "there is still as much risk of a name designer being run over...
...garbage glut. But as manufacturers rush to hype the healthy-planet virtues of their products, some seem to be badly overdoing it. Mobil officials said last week that the company will no longer tout its Hefty trash bags as "degradable" because of "mounting confusion" over just what the label means. Mobil was taking a hint. The attorneys general of California, New York, Texas and five other states have launched a joint investigation to determine whether claims like Mobil's constitute deceptive advertising...
...most so-called degradable plastics, the Hefty bags contain a chemical additive to help the bags break down after exposure to sun and the elements. Yet most plastic ends up in landfills, where there is no light and little oxygen -- in short, no decomposition. As a result, the degradable label is often meaningless. Says Julie Brenegar, a spokeswoman for Greenpeace: "The plastics industry has been cynically cashing in on the good intentions of consumers who want to do the right thing for the environment...
...Bledsoe argues that these specialties do not render obsolete Room 13, which prides itself on being a nonspecialty group. She says that often people prefer talking with a general counseling service because they may initially be reluctant to label their problem...
...That label won't stick on "mainstream" Clinton. Comfortable being whisked off in a limousine in the evening to Antoine's by lobbyists for RJR Nabisco, the quintessential symbol of 1980s corporate greed, he can then preach Democratic values in the morning. Clinton is the perfect front man for an organization that celebrates the work ethic of the common man while relying almost entirely on the Fortune 500 for operating funds. Although Clinton has recovered from his stupefyingly long prime-time address at the 1988 convention, he is still a techno-Democrat, one of a dozen...