Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately for Douglas, the nuclear industry isn't playing along. General Electric, which manufactures equipment for nuclear plants, withdrew its sponsorship of a Barbara Walters T.V. special because Fonda talked about "The China Syndrome" on it. G.E. said its sponsorship would be "inappropriate" because the film could "cause undue public concern" about nuclear power. Douglas points out that G.E. hasn't seen the film yet and so doesn't know whether the concern is "undue," but G.E.'s worry seems warranted. A nuclear energy trade association has sent out reams of positive material on nuclear energy to film reviewers...
...memory without besmirching it completely. With doctrinal legerdemain, they put forth the line that Mao's philosophy was basically correct, but that it was distorted and misapplied by his onetime heir apparent Lin Piao?now the most vilified historical figure in China?and the Gang. Mao's sponsorship of the Cultural Revolution is excused on the grounds that he was aged, infirm and confused...
University policy prohibits commercial sponsorship of events at Harvard, Epps said...
University policy forbids events "sponsored by a commercial enterprise," Epps said. "'Sponsorship' means taking full financial and ethical responsibility for the event," he said...
Money said. "There is no sponsorship going on" under the present toga plan. "We have made that clear to the beer company and the movie company," he added...