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- <title>
- Aug. 13, 1990: Business Notes:Litigation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- LITIGATION
- Selling to Beat The Devil
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- <body>
- <p> Bareknuckle competition is the credo of American business,
- but James and Linda Newton may have taken things too far. In
- a lawsuit filed last week, Procter & Gamble accuses the
- Parsons, Kans., couple of promoting their independent Amway
- distributorship by linking P&G to satanism. The Newtons
- allegedly circulated a flyer claiming that the president of P&G
- "gave Satan all the credit for his riches" and offering
- information on "alternative products." For more than a decade,
- P&G has been bedeviled by the satanism charge. Tales that its
- 108-year-old moon-and-stars logo was demonic forced the symbol
- off company packaging. Three previous rumors were traced to
- Amway distributors, who were repudiated by Amway officials.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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