Word: legale
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...reported. That means there are more than 1.6 million rapes a year--the highest incidence in the world, according to Interpol. (In 1998 the official South African rate was 104.1 rapes per 100,000 people; in the U.S. the rate was 34.4 per 100,000.) Worse, the cultural and legal attitudes toward rape are practically medieval. In Johannesburg, where the HIV-infection rate is reckoned to be 40% among men in the "rapist" age bracket (20 to 29), many believe raping a virgin will cure HIV. Earlier this month a prominent judge sentenced a 54-year...
...pioneer like Coca-Cola, which has been licensing in Europe since 1986, views the continent as wide-open territory. "We feel like we've only scratched the surface in Europe," says Coke spokeswoman Susan McDermott. Equity Management, the largest U.S. licensing agency, which handles licensing chores that include research, legal work and quality control for its client corporations, gives some measure of the new American interest in landing on European soil. Most of Equity's 100 or so clients are eyeing Continental markets or have already taken the plunge. Says GM's trademark-and-copyright counsel Ken Enborg: "Europe...
...polyester blend may suit a British shopper, but French and German consumers want 100% cotton T shirts only, please. Licensing executive Gianfranco Mari, head of the agency DIC 2 in Milan, underlines that "what sells in Italy may not sell in France." Then there is the tangle of various legal requirements and trademark laws in each nation, which the European Union has not exterminated. "Those laws can keep the lawyers happy for years," says Jaguar's Maries...
...Summers' Dublin store is the only one that has drawn opposition. Downtown merchants--saying a sex shop, no matter how posh, doesn't belong on a main shopping avenue--tried to get it moved to a side street. But the opposing retailers could not find any legal reason to keep the shop off O'Connell Street, and the company turned a deaf ear to their appeals to leave...
...boycott. That got CompUSA's attention. The company complained to the ABC Radio Network, which syndicates Joyner's show, about the false letter Joyner had read. It's not clear what happened next. Though CompUSA's president and CEO, James Halpin, says he never told ABC he was planning legal action against Joyner, ABC got weak in the knees. According to Joyner and Smiley, the network's president, Lyn Andrews, warned them that if they did not stop talking about CompUSA, then ABC might "pull the plug on the show." An ABC spokesperson said the network only wanted Joyner...