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...panel was sufficiently impressed to recommend -- by a vote of 7 to 2 -- that the FDA approve the drug for the 30% of MS patients who, like Arens, have a mild or moderate form of the disease, characterized by months of quiescence interrupted by terrifying relapses...
...leaks. Primarily, the address gave the President a chance to start building support for a program that will face passionate opposition from an ersatz alliance of many interests being hurt, and he seized on it effectively. In plain but strong language, Clinton pleaded with the public to weigh the mild immediate pain of higher taxes against the far greater eventual pain of letting deficits run wild. "Unless we change," said the President, "we will be condemning our children and our children's children to a lesser life than we enjoyed...
...media concept?" Before long, the McCann team found out what Coke had in mind: CAA advisers were working alongside them in their New York City offices, suggesting ideas for Coke Classic. Coca-Cola had created an uneasy creative alliance in search of better ideas. They had also created a mild panic in the advertising business, where many executives viewed CAA's new role with alarm. Rumors flew that CAA might even try to capture the Diet Coke account handled by the prominent Lintas agency...
...standard Moscow taxicab sifts through traffic along the city's Boulevard Ring road on a mild, hazy winter's afternoon. The windows are coated with a viscous film of mud and grit, residue of city snow turned to slush. Wipers, old and misshapen, scrape slowly across the windshield, clearing just enough space for the driver to spot a stout old man waving his hand from the curb. He pulls over. A few words are spoken, an agreement reached. The man and his wife, both wearing dingy overcoats, fur hats and rubber boots, clamber...
Although these penalties are relatively mild, Israeli officials are enraged at the very prospect of facing U.N. sanctions. "To put us in the same category as Iraq, Serbia and Libya -- it's unacceptable," says Rabin's spokesman, Gad Ben-Ari. "We've not swallowed another country or massacred thousands of people or harbored terrorists who blew up a packed airplane." To . block approval, Jerusalem has embarked on an intensive lobbying effort. Rabin took the unusual step of calling all ambassadors accredited to Israel to a late-night meeting at his office in Tel Aviv. There, they were served cold sodas...