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...Federal Trade Commission hinted at a crackdown on the often fanciful tar and nicotine levels printed on cigarette packs. Through it all, though, one franchise stays strong: Marlboro. The brand accounts for 30% of the world cigarette market. It also anchors a lucrative mail business peddling burly outdoor gear--pocket knives, flashlights, Weber grills and every form of jacket--with the familiar logo. "If we were a mail-order company like L.L. Bean," says Ellen Merlo, a Philip Morris executive, "we'd be the third largest in the country...
...final bill before the House adjourned for its month-long August recess. A defeat, in Gingrich's eyes, meant that the budget battles scheduled for the fall would suddenly be much, much harder. At such a moment as this, a traditional Speaker might have reached into his pocket and pulled out a water project here, an Air Force base there to secure the last votes he needed. But Gingrich has little in common with his predecessors; he has never even chaired a committee in Congress, where he might have learned the brokerage business. And anyway the sticking point was abortion...
...many patients, TennCare has been like a balm. Those people who never had health coverage are "happy just because they have a TennCare card in their pocket," says Gordon Bonnyman, a Tennessee legal-services lawyer. And many Medicaid recipients like the shift to managed care, since it provides an opportunity to build a relationship with a primary-care physician...
Perera, an aspiring movie director and actor, arrived in Los Angeles this spring with $1,000. He immediately spent $700 on a car. "I left L.A. with $300 in my pocket," Perera recounted in an interview this week. "For seven days I slept in the back of the car and saw a lot of America...
...SHAME THAT YOUR ITEM ON NEVADA rancher Dick Carver, "That Pocket Constitution," contained a reader's erroneous reference to Thomas Jefferson as a drafter of the Constitution [LETTERS, Nov. 13]. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution. He was Minister to France when the Constitution was written in 1787 and objected strongly to the omission of a bill of rights. Partly as a result of Jefferson's urging, the first 10 Amendments were soon added to the Constitution. GARY L. TAYLOR U.S. District Judge Santa Ana, California...