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...announced that it intends to require the inclusion of an appropriate warning in the labeling of oral contraceptives. But this "labeling" does not refer to the little sticker that the pharmacist puts on the bottle or box of pills. It refers to the fine-print technical information that drug companies supply only to pharmacists, doctors and to the publisher of the widely used book, Physicians' Desk Reference. Thus it will still be up to the conscientious doctor to convey the warning to his patients...
This spring, as the oil pipeline that started it all cuts its way through the northern wilderness, a defiant Alaskan bumper sticker proclaims: "We don't give a damn how they do it on the outside"-"the outside" meaning the rest of the U.S. For better and for worse, the changes already under way in the 49th state make it all too likely that as time goes on, Alaskans will be doing things more and more the way "they" do them in the Lower 48. This time, the future and all of its problems have come to Alaska...
...hitchhiking was busy there and I thought I would have to wait at least an hour before all the people in front of me got rides. A hot red porsche pulled up to the stoplight. On the right-hand window was a Harvard sticker--this was a sure ride. I couldn't miss. But the driver was dressed in a three-piece suit, and his sleek bubble sunglasses turned Business School into his face. When I knocked on his window, he kept right on looking at the light, as if it were holding him back from important dealings elsewhere. This...
...Manufacturers Association said: "In America, which is in a truly deep recession, one question is how will we be able to continue to support the principle of free trade?" Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, is trying to document a suspicion that the Rabbit, at a U.S. sticker price of $2,999, is being sold below cost, which would be grounds for a "dumping" complaint to the Treasury Depart ment. Robert Link, a Datsun executive, says nervously that "we don't really want to sell less, but we sure wish Detroit would sell more," thus taking...
...Newell Boathouse, there are stickers on every oar upon which oarsmen's names have been embossed: Brooks, Bixby, Hovey and so on. But on one oar is a sticker which reads simply, "Row well...