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With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, agritech companies aren't eager to draw sweeping conclusions from the Cornell experiments. "Obviously the work is preliminary and inconclusive," says Monsanto spokesman Randy Krotz, minimizing the possibility that corn pollen could ever be blown far enough to affect monarch habitats. But it was just such a discovery--of pollen-dusted milkweed 200 ft. from the edge of cornfields--that prompted Losey's study in the first place. Says he: "We asked ourselves, 'What would happen if the milkweed would be dusted with Bt [corn pollen]?'" His experiments quickly gave an answer...
...Clinton administration to either accept responsibility for the lapses on its watch or lop off enough internal heads to defuse the report's impact -- or a combination of both. Or it could go into major denial mode. "If you're looking at this presidency," said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart Monday, "I can't point to a case where we know something was stolen, we know who did it and we know where it went to and we know where it came from," he said. "That's the bottom line, as disappointing...
...White House spokesman showed bad judgment in claiming that since there were times during the past Administration when millions of Americans felt they couldn't watch the TV news with their children, reducing that number to only one family in Illinois could be seen as progress. Still, Elizabeth Dole remains enormously popular, and the Democrats are indulging in wishful thinking, not to speak of poor taste, with their constant demands for an investigation of what they persist in calling "Tinklegate...
...first to target alleged abuses at so-called fortress hub airports created by carriers like American after Congress deregulated the airlines in 1978. While consumer advocates welcomed the suit, legal experts said it would be tough for Justice to prove predatory pricing. "We didn't undercut," argues American spokesman Chris Chiames. "We matched fares set by others and added seats when the demand went...
...support for U.S. policy, Washington began to simply announce it on a take-it-or-leave-it basis," says Dowell. "That has also led to a problem where the State Department tends to regard the U.N. secretary general as simply another tool to implement U.S. policy." To wit, Albright spokesman James Rubin's comment on Boutros-Ghali's charges: "It was always unfortunate that Mr. Boutros-Ghali did not have the skills to successfully manage the most important relationship for any secretary general, which is smooth cooperation with the United States." U.N. insiders would be forgiven for finding that response...