Word: stakes
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...local phone rates down. And long-distance rates, which have tumbled more than 60% since 1984 after adjusting for inflation, will keep falling amid a proliferation of new competitors and discount plans. Still, says a senior congressional staff member, "the consumer is poorly represented in this process because his stake is small compared to those of the huge monied interests." He adds, "The consumer groups have worked hard on this, but they are soft voices compared to the screaming of the people for hire." The consumers, in the end, have an important opportunity for revenge. If they are angry when...
...consumer's health and well-being are not, of course, the only factors at stake in these decisions. SmithKline lost its patent protection for Tagamet last year; Merck's exclusive rights to Pepcid end in 2000; and Glaxo's claim to Zantac expires in 2002. By law, any company that switches to an over-the-counter preparation of its product enjoys a three-year monopoly before other firms are allowed to manufacture a generic version. All three companies are planning to use the time to establish name recognition and brand loyalty among consumers...
...testimony seemed to contradict the detective's flat denial that he had ever used such slurs during the past ten years when he was under cross-examination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. The defense would like to undercut that testimony, saysTIME's James Willwerth. "What's really at stake here is playing the racial card. The defense theory that Mark Furman was part of some racist conspiracy in the police department was effectively blunted when Furman came through Bailey's examination. The defense is trying anything they can to convince at least one of the black jurors that Furman...
This time, however, the records were not so banal. They showed that Foster was worried about how to treat on their tax returns the $1,000 the Clintons received for selling their stake in Whitewater that year. The reason: though the Clintons had claimed during the campaign that they lost $68,000 on Whitewater, their accountants could document only $5,800 worth of losses for tax purposes. The issue was "a can of worms you shouldn't open," Foster wrote in notes to himself. Rather than trigger an irs audit of past Whitewater deductions by claiming a loss, the Clintons...
...Arkansas friend of the Clintons'. Back in 1993, Americans had yet to discover that in the late 1970s, Hillary Clinton, following Blair's advice, had turned a $1,000 investment in the commodities market into a $100,000 profit. Making public in 1993 that Blair helped sell the Clintons' stake in Whitewater might have led reporters to Mrs. Clinton's commodities trading. When that story broke last year, commodities experts raised questions about how Mrs. Clinton could have invested so heavily without the legally required collateral. The issue still rankles the White House. "It's not Whitewater they're worried...