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Puffers around the U.S. were intrigued last year when the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company disclosed that it had developed a virtually smokeless cigarette. Now cigarette users can decide whether the product is like the real thing. Last week Reynolds said that beginning Oct. 1 it will test-market its new brand, Premier, in St. Louis, Phoenix and Tucson. The user lights Premier like a regular cigarette, but a carbon element at its tip warms the enclosed tobacco and flavorings rather than burns them...
Even though Premier generates less smoke, it has provoked plenty of fire. Health activists, charging that RJR's Premier is not a tobacco product but a device that introduces the drug nicotine into the body, have urged the Food and Drug Administration to regulate Reynolds' invention just like any new drug. The Government will decide in December whether Premier's packaging must bear the Surgeon General's warning. Smokers may be put off by Premier's price: 30 cents more a pack than regular brands...
...causes and remedies, but the two forms of gridlock intersect in a harmful way on the bottom line of U.S. businesses. Congestion is helping boost the total cost of moving people and goods, which amounted to $792 billion in the U.S. last year, or 17.6% of the gross national product. Delays and disruptions can quickly spread inflationary price increases through the economy. Case in point: gridlock can play havoc with the just-in-time inventory system, a popular Japanese-style management technique in which manufacturers bring in parts at the last minute rather than stockpiling large quantities...
There was a time when Mafia and Godfather were alien words in the official Soviet vocabulary, and organized crime was considered an inevitable by-product of decadent capitalism. No longer. Inspired by Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for greater honesty and openness, criminal investigators have begun unraveling a web of crime and corruption, dating back to the Brezhnev years, that stretched from the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan to the highest levels of government in Moscow...
...Pledge of Allegiance issue is the product of Bush's opposition research team. In 1977, during Dukakis' first term as Governor, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill requiring teachers to lead their classes in the pledge each day. Following standard state practice, Dukakis sought an advisory ruling on the bill from his attorney general as well as the state supreme court. Both found the bill unconstitutional: the landmark 1943 U.S. Supreme Court decision West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette held that requiring a student to recite the pledge under the threat of expulsion violated the Constitution's guarantee...