THE BATTALION Page 15
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1981
Small businesses need
legal help, lawyer says
United Press International
NEW YORK — Legal worries
can absorb an inordinate amount
of a small businessman’s time if he
does not have access to proper
help, says Washington lawyer
Mary Helen Sears.
After listing the everyday legal
problems with which a small busi
ness must contend, she concluded
the company which tried to man
age with only the help of an ordin
ary lawyer, would find its execu
tives pressed for time to run the
business.
What a small business needs,
she said, is the services of a law
firm with wide and specialized ex
pertise.
Sears listed among areas of real
ly serious legal pitfalls:
— research, trademark and pa
tent infringement.
This is a really complex area
involving the possibility of deli
berate or subconscious plagiarism
of competitors’ advertising either
in wording or substance.
Research also involves a bewil
dering variety of other required
federal, state and local clearances.
For example, many food and drink
products, drugs and pesticides re
quire more than one set of clear
ances.
— consumer safety laws.
There is now a bewildering
array of federal, state and local
laws covering safety and require
ments for adequate and appropri
ate insurance to cover the risks.
— over-exuberant promotional
advertising and instructional
materials.
It’s important to understate
rather than overstate the capabil
ity or safety of products. There
must be plenty of warnings to the
buyer.
— obscure government regula
tions or those- simply not antici
pated.
tions have practically the effect of
law.
— discretion. Businessmen can
get in much legal trouble by talk
ing too freely. Don’t tell a corpora- *;
tion that is your financial angel ev- *•
erything about your business. ~
That could cause some enemy of *
your angel to embroil you in an ^
antitrust or unfair competition.
— concurrence.
Failure to get in writing the Z
concurrence of everybody in- ~
volved in a transaction whether it -
involves money or merely policy *
can invite serious litigation, espe- Z
cially in the form of liability suits ^
against management by stockhol- *■
ders. t
If the Army or Navy is a big user
of a product, for example, “that
may be the bottom line on what
can be done or not done commer
cially with the product and may be
the practical standard on what you
may be sued for,” Sears said.
— trade association standards.
Electrical goods are subject to
the standards of fire underwriters.
Many other sets of standards set
up by recognized trade associa
— investigation.
Failure to investigate the back
grounds of employees as to their
education or prior experience can
boomerang and hurt a business
badly.
— naivete.
It’s as bad as being paranoid
about people. If the business ex
ecutive doesn’t show a healthy
skepticism about people, he or she
may blunder into many legal pit-
falls.
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Milk is the source of more than
versialsu lpercent of American children’s
r aubusai erage daily sugar consumption
Hallwke compared with 13.8 percent
s befoit >m sweetened drinks such as soft
Hall, Mrs.jinks and 11.2 percent from
ikes, cookies and pies.
These surprising figures are
im a nutrition study made by
ed one Karen). Morgan of the University
its, calls® Missouri and Prof. Mary E.
ty, Natioftbik of Michigan State Univer-
sitv.
hefs gk| Morgan, who directed the
the 5-f»i|udy, is an assistant professor of
y a shcnfflitrition who has made many stu-
choppiralesoffood behavior of school-age
Htildren.
:a Springi The pair found the average dai-
het Hj! | sugar consumption of 5- to 12-
for mu,: year-olds in the study was the
e” at tkfjuivalent of two-thirds of a cup of
wnulated sugar. Equivalent is
tie aboHlle key word. Most people don’t
ago, no«lalize sugar occurs in differing
gardedaiinns in a lot of food and bever-
o her teles we don’t think of as sweet,
vomen, I Lactose, for example, is a com-
fonent of milk and maltose, of
bm. The human body doesn’t
istinguish among the sugars for
pergy—it simply converts them
glucose, or blood sugar, Mor
gan said.
The Morgan-Zabik findings are
lased on analyses of seven-day
food diaries kept by families of 657
randomly selected youngsters in
1977.
Asked how up-to-date and
truthful the researchers thought
the recordkeeping was, Morgan
said: “The scientific community
considers this to be good informa
tion for about 10 years.
“We don’t know that it’s com
pletely reliable, completely valid,
but it’s the best we have avail
able,” she added.
The children were selected
from a group of 2,000 families in
the 48 contiguous states and are
thought to be representative of
the U.S. population as a whole,
she said.
“There are two types of nutri
tional research,” Morgan said.
One is done in a laboratory set
ting, using rats or guinea pigs in a
controlled environment. The
other looks at what people really
are doing in their daily lives.
Morgan said about 75 percent of
scientists blame childhood obesity
on reduced activity rather than
eating more than lighter weight
youngsters.
Still, she said, the children’s
overall diets were much better
than they expected to find. “They
don’t really consume gross
amounts of food,” she said, of the
obese youngsters.
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