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...Tylenol's share of the pain- killer market to plunge from 35% to 7%, Johnson & Johnson staged what industry experts called a "miracle" comeback. The company spent an estimated $300 million to recall 31 million old packages of Tylenol capsules and promote new ones that were "triple sealed" to resist tampering. Now the company must restore confidence yet again. It will not be easy: the poisoned woman's mother described the plan to withdraw capsules from the market as "three years too late...
...printers not only balked at a legal contract but continued to resist the new technology. The old plants, for example, featured a button for stopping presses. The Wapping compound has no such device, but the union insisted that three men should be hired to supervise an imaginary button anyway. When talks broke down in late 1984, Murdoch secretly began laying plans to operate Wapping without the printers. The publisher's New York office contacted Atex, a leading U.S. manufacturer of newspaper computers, and ordered a $10 million system. The equipment was shipped in unmarked boxes to London, where a dozen...
Government requires tough decisions, independently made. We can't decide to build "Star Wars" simply because General Dynamics takes our elected representatives out to lunch. Anti-abortion activists shouldn't be able to control the majority simply because they are a well organized minority. Furthermore, legislators need to resist the extreme demands of the farm lobby that erode our treasury...
...assaulting and looting along the way. General Okello reportedly sought refuge in Sudan, where he is said to be planning a counterattack. From his own haven in Saudi Arabia, Idi Amin charged the new government with slaughtering civilians and claimed that he had urged his followers inside Uganda to resist Museveni. The old guard may be gone, but it will probably be a while before its influence passes from the scene in Uganda...
...campaign, first to dissociate the College from the Final Clubs and, now, to persuade students that membership in them is dishonorable. Given the modest role of the Clubs in the life of the College, they seem a curious target for such sustained reformist zeal. It is hard to resist the suspicion that a pinch of self-righteousness and a dollop of envy are amongst the campaigners' motivations...