Mr. Gest's spokesman, Warren Cowan, faxed a "media advisory" (not to be confused with a "media alert," he explained) that said "arrangements have been made" with OK!, a British picture magazine, "for exclusive coverage".
"When the CDC gives an advisory not to come to a neighborhood, it has real effects," said Zak Stern, better known as Zak the Baker. .
"It happened in a year and a half where suddenly the country was thrown open, and everyone lifted their travel advisories not to go to Myanmar," said Steven Schipani, a tourism expert at the Asian Development Bank in Bangkok, which, along with the Norwegian government, financed the tourism ministry's study.
The unseasonable insult was, for some, the last straw in a winter-weary region that has not only been on high alert since Sept. 11, 2001, but that also more recently withstood a Washington's Birthday blizzard and round-the-clock Iraqi war advisories, not to mention SARS angst.
Next, there was the vote last week by another FDA advisory committee not to recommend over-the-counter status for the cholesterol-lowering drug Mevacor.
In July lawyers for dealers, auction houses and museums tried to persuade the State Department's cultural property advisory committee not to recommend renewing the emergency import restrictions on Byzantine ethnological material from Cyprus for another three years.
First, there was a lopsided vote in early December by an FDA advisory committee not to recommend approval of the testosterone patch for women called Intrinsa, developed by Procter & Gamble.
Luckily it's on SBS where normal rules on viewer advisories seem not to apply.
But the plan's guidelines are advisory, not mandatory, and subject to economic and political pressures.
But I had only taken their letter to be advisory, not the law".
The agent, Andy Miller, said yesterday that he did not represent Barkley and that he attended Tuesday's meeting in an advisory capacity and not to pitch his services.
