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...market share. "It looks like an extortion racket," says Richard Sullivan of the Association of Food Industries. Consumer groups are concerned because the A.H.A. has not yet made public the amount of fat, cholesterol and salt it considers acceptable. "We don't know whether the standards are too lax," says nutritionist Bonnie Liebman of the Center for - Science in the Public Interest. Another objection: the A.H.A. will not disclose which products fail in testing...
...Allen's obsession with the clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...
...When I complained about these lax measures she replied, `We're supposed to have a list, but we're just trusting people not to vote more than once...
...investigating unnatural deaths is becoming increasingly necessary. Capital punishment has returned. Defense attorneys are more aggressive in challenging the accuracy of evidence. Citizens groups are more vocal in their charges of police brutality. Warns Baden: "It's more important than ever that we don't make mistakes." A lax system will erode public faith in the credibility of the medical examiner, and that would be a crime...
...minute interview with TIME last week, Doi set out her agenda for the coming months. She called on the L.D.P. to dissolve the lower house and hold new elections. She planned to act on demands by voters to strengthen the lax laws on political ethics and campaign contributions that allowed the Liberal Democrats to peddle influence with near impunity. As for relations with its chief ally, she said Japan has given in to U.S. demands too often. Washington, she said, "can't just bring requests to Japan in order to resolve its own deficits. We should agree to disagree...