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...Coop is quick to rebut its critics. General manager Davis recently labeled many of Steele's criticisms as "contrived." He claimed that a new profit-sharing plan more than compensates Coop employees for any losses they might have suffered resulting from the adoption of a new pension plan last year. The Coop pension plan has been one of Steele's favorite targets...
Herrnstein directs his first attack at the "environmentalist doctrine that dominates both our education and our attitudes toward social policy," and goes on to rebut his critics...
...bread-to run corrective ads to straighten out earlier misleading claims. The FTC also advocated that broadcasters allow "counteradvertising" by groups that oppose a product or a message that regular advertisers are trying to push. Under the proposal, for example, antipollution forces would be entitled to free time to rebut auto-company commercials. The FTC charged four big food companies (Kellogg, General Foods, General Mills and Quaker Oats) with monopolizing the breakfast cereal market, and tried to block a merger between two large drug firms (Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert). Last month the agency accused Xerox of illegally muscling competition...
...campus activist groups today will kick off a week of counter-orientation activities designed to rebut what they consider a one-sided picture of the University presented to freshmen by the Harvard Establishment...
Though the report was prepared by mostly Democratic economists, the Nixon Administration voiced no disagreement with their mathematics. But it strongly disputed their policy conclusions. White House policymakers seized on the chance to make clear their choice among the available options. At a press conference called to rebut the Brookings study, Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman painted this picture of Nixon's policy during a potential second term: taxes will be held down, federal social spending will be slashed deeply, and the financial burden of many programs will in effect be shifted to states and cities...