By adopting these principles, our member companies stand firmly behind the belief that direct-to-consumer advertising can and should increase awareness about diseases so that people know more about symptoms.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

Our store doesn't have advertising ; we rely strictly on word of mouth. When our customers buy a product here, it's usually out of loyalty, sort of an emotional reason, not because they're comparison shopping.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

After reviewing the documents produced to the Committee on Energy and Commerce in connection with our investigation into the accounting practices at WorldCom Inc., we must express our grave concerns about what we have discovered,