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This is not the first time a company has tried to capture customers with a calculating can. Two years ago, Coca-Cola came out with a similar promotion, dubbed MagiCan, but withdrew it in three weeks after a number of the mechanisms that were supposed to propel cash or prize certificates out of the opening malfunctioned...
Even as the company withdrew, it insisted that there is no proof that leakage from Dow implants causes significant damage. But it announced a $10 million fund for research into implant questions and said it will pay up to $1,200 (of a cost that ranges from $500 to $5,000) for customers who cannot afford surgery for necessary removal...
...agreed to an outright ban on the use of any U. S. aid funds by either countries or international health organizations for the promotion of birth control or abortion. As a result of this position, announced at the World Conference on Population in Mexico City in 1984, the U.S. withdrew funding from, among others, two of the world's largest family planning organizations: the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities...
Following the elections, the PBS withdrew from the National Front in October 1990, joining the opposition. The KL government responded by vowing to introduce competing Muslim Malay parties in Sabah...
...Olympics they will be on thin ice once again. Last month the Duchesnays withdrew from the European championships after Paul suffered a flare-up of an old groin injury. The default neither jeopardized the Duchesnays' berth on the French team nor presaged a no-show in Albertville -- "We will be there if we have to crawl," Isabelle assures. But it cost them a valuable opportunity to preview their new long program, an intricate dance choreographed by Dean and set to music from West Side Story. A routine that relies on such familiar strains is unlikely to meet with the resistance...