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...experts see a distinct danger in the muddled messages. "For someone with chronic heart disease, hypertension or diabetes, the current manufacturers' labels can be downright dangerous," says Gail Levey, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. People with high blood pressure, for example, should be wary of falling for Stouffer's Lean Cuisine, which proudly boasts "Never more than a gram of sodium" in its print advertisements. While the claim is true, the implication -- that this is a very low-salt product -- is not. Nutritionists normally measure sodium in milligrams (thousandths of a gram), not grams. Several diet delights from...
Douglas E. Stouffer...
Nestlé has long had a keen appetite for U.S. companies. In a buying binge during the '70s, the Swiss food conglomerate helped itself to Beech-Nut (baby foods), Libby, McNeill & Libby (fruit juices) and Stouffer (hotels and frozen dinners). But Nestlé then decided to halt its U.S. expansion because of heavy financial losses suffered in Argentina...
...many hotels, though, the most immediate way to reach for the upper crust is to renovate one or two floors. The Stouffer chain has introduced a hotel-within-a-hotel in eight of its 20 establishments. Perhaps to help executives justify the premium of $30 over the price of a standard $80 room, Stouffer emphasizes how its ritzy amenities can be a boon to business productivity. Says Senior Vice President Ronald Nykiel: "In the morning, coffee, a roll and a paper are brought to the rooms, getting the executives off to a fast start. If they need a suit pressed...
...When journalists declined to pay a fee to one Hinckley juror, her husband complained, "Why should she spend her time so you can make money on her? What's in it for her?" Another motivation for telling their stories is to fight back. When the judge in the Stouffer's Inn case threw out the jury's conviction, the next day's newspapers were filled with disgruntled reactions from jurors defending their verdict...