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...tickets one Sunday morning six years ago, marketing director Douglas Kinzey himself was there to persuade them to sign on; returning to their car, they found the garage had closed, so Kinzey drove the elderly couple home. Since then the Beardsleys have been loyal subscribers. "We abandoned the whole concept of selling tickets and started building relationships with our customers instead," explains Kinzey...
...that Family Dog is awful. It's a perfectly amiable, perfectly inconsequential cartoon show that seems better suited to Saturday mornings. The concept is appealing: life in a suburban household as seen through the eyes of the ignored and abused family pet. And the pooch itself is amusingly drawn: a woebegone, teardrop-snouted creature, rendered in the spare lines of 1950s UPA animation (Mr. Magoo...
...have no reason to doubt they are negotiating in good faith. But of course their concept of democracy is different from yours and mine. We have already encountered this problem in their concept of power sharing, which to them means the party that loses the elections should continue to govern. Now we have moved them away from that, and they are coming to accept our concept of a government of national unity which is based on majority rule. We are saying all political parties with a substantial following should be included in government, so we can face problems together...
...ABORTION DRUG HAS BEEN A source of controversy ever since its invention was announced in 1982 by Baulieu, a French physician who worked as a researcher at Roussel Uclaf. The concept was rather simple: RU 486, an antiprogestin, could break a fertilized egg's bond to the uterine wall and thus induce a miscarriage. An injection two days later of prostaglandin, a hormone-like substance, would force uterine contractions and speed the ejection of the embryo. It took six more years and tests on more than 17,000 women before the French government announced that RU 486 would be made...
...takes pride in the original plans, citing the fact that, in the end, the committee "stuck close to our first concept, which must mean that we started off in the right direction...