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...market leader in disposable lighters, claims to have sold 2 billion of the 79 cents throwaway items since 1973. According to the litigants, the lighter is an unstable fire bomb that can self-ignite in housecoat pockets and purses and on car dashboards. Bic accidents have allegedly claimed the life of at least one victim, Ethel Smith of Tower City, Pa., whose husband is suing for $11 million. Other suits against the company * could easily mount into additional millions of dollars. In one of the first Bic cases tried in open court, Philadelphia Artist Cynthia Littlejohn last November...
...force. Particularly at a time when so many U.S. businesses are restructuring and getting back to basics, McDonald's as a corporation looks more and more like a case study in how to concentrate on providing one service exceedingly well. While McDonald's may still represent junk food and throwaway culture to some people, many others are making a more generous assessment of the hamburger giant's value. Even Soviet television, which in the past has portrayed the hamburger chain as a capitalist conspiracy to sell tasteless food, broadcast a report last November that lauded a McDonald's outlet...
Disposable razors are one thing, but will anyone buy a throwaway camera? Fuji Photo Film and Eastman Kodak apparently think so. Their new rival models, both announced last week, combine film, plastic lens and a shutter into one small box. After shooting pictures, users will take the entire camera to a photo lab for film processing. Kodak's Fling, which could be available by the summer, will sell for $6.95 and take 24 shots. It contains the 110 film used in Kodak's Instamatic cameras. Fuji will begin selling its Quick Snap this spring. It will cost less than...
...almost any subject, Schlesinger is capable of striking grace notes, like his throwaway line on Aaron Burr: "A man of undoubted talents who, however, was trusted by no one in the long course of American history except for his daughter Theodosia and Gore Vidal." But Schlesinger is playing his nimble variations on substantial themes: the awkward partnership of a free economy and government, the complexities of foreign policy for a people tempted toward both interventionism and isolationism, the paradoxes of leadership constantly answerable to the voter. Whether the subject at hand is Viet Nam or the cold war, Schlesinger...
...effacing, spouts his mind with a mixture of candor and clumsiness. He seems convinced that it is his penchant for essaying pointed jokes, nothing more, that gets him in trouble. He even says that his blast at Robert McFarlane last week for giving "lousy advice" was meant as a "throwaway line." Says he: "I'm going to have to stop being witty...