Word: adding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...They're trying to repair the problem by coming at the wrong end," says Joel Segal, an executive vice president of the ad agency McCann-Erickson. "I don't see how bringing in a third person will help bring up the first...
...Boycott Folgers coffee. What it brews is misery and death." Narrated by actor Ed Asner, that TV attack ad has sparked a battle between a San Francisco-based peace group called Neighbor to Neighbor and corporate giant Procter & Gamble, whose Folgers brand is the top-selling U.S. coffee. The 30- sec. spot, which aired earlier this month on CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston, accuses Procter & Gamble of prolonging the ten-year civil war in El Salvador by buying Salvadoran coffee beans, the country's leading export, and thereby supporting the right-wing government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
...Worcester, Mass., independent station WHLL plans to run the Neighbor to Neighbor spot this week. Says Michael Volpe, the station's general manager: "This has a lot more to do with First Amendment rights than with coffee and advertising. If you take away the right to run an ad, you're losing something...
...with advertisements urging smokers and nonsmokers to iron out their differences by talking to each other and respecting each others' "rights." This is ridiculous. Students should not have to apply moral suasion to their smoking peers to get them to comply with the law. Official reprimands and, if necessary, Ad Board discipline are appropriate for those who recklessly endanger the health of their peers...
...could argue either side of a question with equal gusto. Unlike lawyers, debaters never seek friendly, out- of-court settlements: their goal is to intellectually destroy the opponent. Sununu wields his prodigious memory like a sword, inundating his adversary with data. And he resorts early and often to ad hominem bullying. Observes a senior White House official: "There is something in Sununu's personality where he cannot stay in his seat if someone says or does something that he thinks is foolish. He feels obliged to immediately expose the person as a fool...