Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Fox yesterday said that the additions to the drug section were "advisory." He said the Faculty Council decided to insert warnings against bad drugs after it received reports that marijuana treated with PCP had been sold in the Boston area...
...speech. Said one White House aide who watched Blumenthal: "He was climbing the walls." Blumenthal was trying desperately to alter the decision and then, realizing it was irreversible, attempting to shore up his own position by making additions to Eizenstat's drafts. He finally persuaded Eizenstat to insert a new paragraph in the President's speech declaring that Strauss would become a member of the steering committee of the Economic Policy Group, of which Blumenthal is chairman. The reference was merely face-saving, for it was clear that Strauss would become a major force in the President...
...declined to review a lower court decision upholding a 1975 Federal Trade Commission order: the company must not only stop making the claim but specifically advertise that it is not true. In its next $10 million worth of Listerine ads-about a year's budget-Warner-Lambert must insert this statement: "Listerine will not help prevent colds or sore throats or lessen their severity." In the course of its review, which began in 1972, the FTC found that Listerine was no more effective in combatting colds than warm water. Doubtless Warner-Lambert will bury the admission as inconspicuously...
...south. The Times opened a 26-member editorial office there, committed an estimated $1.5 million to its first year of operation, rented additional office space for 60 circulation employees, installed 1,000 newspaper vending machines around town, and began printing 71,000 copies of a 24-page daily insert of mostly San Diego news (circulation and pages are expected to drop this week...
...tolerant, devoted doctor, et al--are stock, but Slade fuses each of them with life. As a one-time writer of sit-coms (over 100, it is reported), he must have learned how to play around with stereotypes, searching for that one little crack of humanity in which to insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays always call "Uncle Lou" or "Uncle Irving." The sole function of this fellow is usually to mouth exposition...