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...soup from a can is as nutritious as anything found in a health-food store. As part of the effort, Campbell is sponsoring the U.S. figure-skating team and has managed to get its products designated the "official soups" of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The new, thinner Campbell kids are appropriately garbed as skaters, skiers and bobsledders. Admits Paul Mulcahy, Campbell's managing director for advertising: "We've slimmed them down a bit, and we'll gradually slim them down a bit more." He vows, however, that "the kids will never be skinny...
Next year's course catalogue will use a tailor 6"x9" format, which should make the book somewhat thinner. Diana Whitty. Manager of classrooms, examinations and publications in the Registrar's office, said...
...problem will remain intractable. But powerlessness should not excuse Harvard from adopting a policy of divestiture of its Philip Morris stock. Even if divestiture dots nothing to force Philip Morris to alter its foreign trade practices, the moral justification for financially supporting tobacco production and export is even thinner than for investing in South Africa or nuclear weapons production, the other hotly debated divestiture issues. Continuing to ignore--or worse, endorse--the injustice our tobacco industry imposes crisis. Instead, our silence will not add to our responsibility for the consequences...
...Society lawyers, who handle 70% of all criminal cases in the city, are on strike, in part because they believe superiors fired one attorney for refusing to add cases to his heavy client list. Says Gary Sloman, one of the striking Legal Aid lawyers: "We're being spread thinner and thinner...
...race day, he is resting in the team motor home, driving shoes off, blue driving suit unzipped, the neck of his white Nomex long Johns showing. He is thin through the hips, and thinner through the shoulders than when he played the arrogant cowboy stud Hud in an undershirt. He has no belly, although he drinks several cans of Budweiser a day (he has not drunk hard liquor since a boozy period at the beginning of the '70s when he was shooting Sometimes a Great Notion). A daily sauna and a three-mile run seem to take care...