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Although PR has several advantages in securing minority representation and filling vacant council seats, Shepsle points out that PR can overwhelm voters...
...Zantac 75 wins approval for over-the-counter sales in the U.S., she predicts, "World War III starts." She notes that while other over-the-counter acid blockers had been on the British market for a year before Zantac 75 appeared in January, it took only three months to overwhelm the competition. "Zantac on the market will be a significant competitor," says Robert Kniffin, vice president of Johnson & Johnson's external communications. "We shall see." (As if Zantac 75's entry were not enough, another candidate in the same acid-blocker category, Eli Lilly's Axid, has also won tentative...
...crossroads of modern life, splashing around in paint to demonstrate chaos theory, attacking Twinkie's with power drills to re-examine such banalities as shrink-wrap, vacuuming the pathetic Christina out of Wyeth's "Christina's World." Frequent musical segments with deep primal bass lines and irregular-heartbeat drums overwhelm the audience in a purely sensory world, freeing them from the burden of too much thinking. Genteel Boston audiences have become devotees of the Blue Man Experience, tying on paper head-bands, singing along with electronic prompters and dancing in an in-house ticker tape parade. They seem to revel...
Norton says it is important that health care reform move slowly so as not to overwhelm the public. Much of the confusion right now, he says, especially among senior citizens' groups, is a result of reformers trying to push ahead too quickly...
...breathed life into the defense's pet theory: that Simpson is an innocent victim of a racist police conspiracy. Former Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner explains: "It is not that the tapes should influence the case by any objective standard. The issue is subjective importance. They will overwhelm the jury. If those tapes come in-and they are as advertised-acquittal is a probability. A hung jury becomes a mere possibility...