Word: makers
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Sometimes the chief is the culprit. Chairman Terence Fox of Iroquois Brands, the Greenwich, Conn.-based maker of Champale malt liquor, was arrested in November after being discovered in a hotel room with $8,000 worth of cocaine. Last year Miller Brewing filed a $19 million civil suit against Robert Landau Associates, a New York City sports-promotion firm that had gone into bankruptcy proceedings in 1984. The brewer, a former client of Landau Associates, charged that President Robert Landau spent $2 million of Miller's promotional money on cocaine, racehorses and other personal expenses. Landau has denied the allegations...
...deals were dramatic evidence of Zenith's growing reputation as a computer maker. Together with earlier contracts signed since 1983 with the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the new sales bring the value of Zenith's total computer business with the Government to $500 million. Says Andrew Czernek, marketing manager for Zenith's computer subsidiary: "Someday, we hope to be known as widely for our computers as for our TVs. At the Pentagon, that's already happened...
...fitting symbol of the drug manufacturer's dramatic response to ! the tragedy. Only the day before, Burke had announced that Johnson & Johnson would no longer sell any of its over-the-counter drugs in capsule form. The pharmaceuticals maker saw the move as the best hope of preventing a recurrence of the still unsolved poisoning of Diane Elsroth, 23, of Peekskill, N.Y., who died Feb. 8, after swallowing two Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide. Said Burke at a press conference: "We take this action with great reluctance and a heavy heart. But since we can't control...
...allowed women injured by someone who had seen or read pornograhic material to sue the maker or seller of the pornography...
When a New York woman died on Feb. 8 after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules, executives at Johnson & Johnson, maker of the painkiller, saw an old nightmare returning to haunt them. They recalled all too vividly how their company was shaken in 1982 after seven people in Illinois died from poisoned Tylenol. This time, Johnson & Johnson was ready. Responding swiftly and smoothly to the new crisis, it immediately and indefinitely canceled all television commercials for Tylenol, established a toll-free telephone hotline to answer consumer questions and offered refunds or exchanges to customers who had purchased Tylenol capsules. At week...