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...subject to strict Government regulations. If they tout a drug by name for a particular illness, they must include a thicket of fine print listing "contraindications" and "adverse reactions." Such verbosity is impractical on TV, but a few companies have sidestepped the problem by keeping their messages simple enough to be within the rules. Marion Merrell Dow, for example, has run TV ads for Nicorette that avoid mentioning what the drug...
...huge array of electronic gear. Normal is 17. The plane's 238 miles of wire is more than twice that in a commercial version. The big delivery delay occurred when Boeing engineers in Wichita, after installing most of the wiring, were worried about electromagnetic interference in such a thicket. They pulled 20% of the wiring out, went on overtime and rerouted the cables. With all the fancy equipment on board, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed special safety requirements that added to the burden. And almost everybody else with an interest in the plane -- Secret Service, National Security Agency, Signal Corps...
...Center, four stunning towers that won new laurels for internationally renowned architect Cesar Pelli and Canada-based developers Olympia & York. In the financial district, where the last broker to leave Wall < Street used to put out the cat each night, more than 6,000 residents have settled into the thicket of 19 new apartment buildings, creating a flourishing neighborhood. Upwards of 40 restaurants and glossy shops have followed. This week ferry service from Hoboken, N.J., begins, after a 22-year hiatus, anchored to a handsome glass terminal just north of the World Financial Center...
...thicket of state insurance laws makes it possible in some cases for private insurers to find ways to keep profits up and payments for AIDS care down. In 1985 one firm, the Great Republic Insurance Co., even issued an "AIDS profile" to its agents, instructing them to treat differently applications from "single males without dependents that are engaged in occupations that do not require physical exertion." These applicants were usually denied insurance. While such major insurers as Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Travelers deny discriminating on the basis of AIDS, others still use information about living arrangements, residences...
Although most Governors agreed that more federal spending on schools is not the answer to their problems, they did ask that Bush help them hack through the thicket of regulations that accompany existing federal education grants. Bush agreed, in the words of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, to "swap red tape for results" in disbursing federal money. Those funds now come encumbered by rules that, for example, prevent night classes of adults from using computers bought for day classes of handicapped students...