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Where is that line? When does the game of dress-up, which used to take place at home with Mom's red lipstick, become a worrying reality? Fira Cosmetics claims to target females ages 12 to 28, but girls as young as five are buying such products as the $12 Special Hits, 10 lip glosses and eye shadows contained in a CD case. "The music scene is driving the young scene," says president Ira Adler, explaining why his company packaged the makeup that way. "Britney and some of the other music groups are bursting with glitter and cosmetics." Kiss Products...
...creation that monitors companies wishing to do business in Canada to ensure that their activities are in the country's interest. FlRA's regulations, however, drove many foreign businessmen away; in the past three years, U.S. investment in Canada declined by $3.7 billion. Mulroney plans to turn FIRA into more of an investment promoter than a nationalistic watchdog. Says Charles Doran, director of Johns Hopkins' Center of Canadian Studies: "The form will be there, but the teeth will be gone...
Foreign investors have blamed much of Canada's trouble on two policies initiated by Trudeau. In 1973 his government created the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA) to screen foreign takeovers and, more recently, to approve new foreign investment in Canada. U.S. businessmen have complained about government arm twisting to extract additional economic concessions in exchange for investment approvals. Lengthy FIRA delays in considering their investment applications have also caused many businessmen to send their money elsewhere. In 1980 Ottawa launched the National Energy Program (NEP), which was designed to increase Canadian oil and natural gas production. In addition...
Most staff psychiatrists at the dispensary spend two hours after work each night making house calls. Particularly in the cities, the dispensaries double as social centers to give lonely and deprived people somewhere to go. Dr. Fira Passer, a short, energetic, middle-aged woman who runs the center, says that most Muscovites who come in are considered to be borderline cases, that is, people in basically good mental health who are temporarily having trouble coping with life. Says she: "They are afflicted with the problem of loneliness and the inability to find a partner or friend-neuroses connected with life...
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