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- The National Advertising Division of the BBB, which reviews ad claims, called three studies on which Pfizer based the "300% more plaque" claim "preliminary, small-scale tests subject to confirmation."
- Corporate bond funds holding the lower-rated but still investment grade BBB bonds lagged behind those with A-rated paper.
- "I always thought the BBB was an elite group," says Elyse Rothstein, who runs a small locksmith shop in nearby El Segundo.
- The BBB said Friday that the ad is deceptive and should be discontinued.
- Burgan Bank is more of a state-owned institution with the government owning a majority of the shares. Capital Intelligence last summer raised Gulf Bank's long-term rating from BBB+ to A on the strength of its 1992 results.
- It led, last November, to the closing of the Los Angeles BBB.
- In late 1974, S&P unaccountably upgraded its rating for New York City bonds from BBB to A, even though the city was clearly in financial peril.
- Mr. Perrett acknowledges that there is a lesson in all this, one the BBB should have known from the start: "Don't get involved in businesses you don't know anything about."
- "We get a lot of calls from people who don't have credit cards but who want to rent a car," says Rhonda Klein Singer, vice president of the BBB of New York.
- "We are looking at the BBB's responsibility for what Better Book sales people said to advertisers."
- Pfizer settled the matter with the BBB, agreeing "in the spirit of cooperation" to withdraw the ads pending further corroboration, Mr. Susman says.