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Other products have sunk for a variety of unexpected reasons. In 1980 Campbell received a tepid response to its new instant soup. The product was a single serving of highly concentrated soup to which the consumer added boiling water. As it happened, this was scarcely more instant than Campbell's regular soup, to which a consumer simply adds water or milk and then boils. General Foods stirred a short-lived sensation with Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy that crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed...
...country with a strong union tradition, Scargill's strike has won relatively little support. Just this week, British dockers called off a solidarity strike largely because of insufficient support among union members. This tepid response can be traced to a number of factors. First was Scargill's decision to call the strike without a national ballot among union members--earlier ballots had rejected strike calls--prompting many to label the walkout undemocratic. This view has been reinforced by nightly television broadcasts showing violence on the picket lines against miners who continue to work. Then there is the issue of Scargill...
Only 20% of registered voters participated last week in elections for the Indian chamber of South Africa's new tricameral Parliament. That unenthusiastic showing came a week after a tepid 30% turnout in balloting for the colored (mixed-race) chamber. The two new houses, which will augment South Africa's previously whites-only Parliament, were set up under a new constitution overwhelmingly approved by white voters last fall. The additional chambers will have authority to pass legislation affecting the nation's 850,000 Indians and 2.8 million coloreds. But real power will remain with the 4.7 million...
...teams have each bet a fortune on the proposition that fans would flock to professional football in the spring and summer, when the air is traditionally filled with pop-ups and homers rather than punts and passes. So far, the new boys of summer have drawn disappointing crowds, suffered tepid television ratings and piled up losses of $80 million in 1984 alone. Meeting in Chicago last week, the owners decided that the only way to play for keeps is to switch to a fall schedule in 1986, even though that means going head to head with the dominant National Football...
Dishonesty ... astonishing." The angry words of the Polish government's chief spokesman, Jerzy Urban, last week were aimed at the U.S., not for what it had done but for what it had failed to do. What infuriated Urban was Washington's apparent initial tepid response to Warsaw's sweeping amnesty for 652 political prisoners. To Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime, the amnesty clearly lived up to Washington's conditions for lifting an array of painful economic sanctions imposed after Poland declared martial law in 1981. But the Reagan Administration seemed to Warsaw...