Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly poignant photograph in the magazines shows as emaciated and shoddily else home. Overlooking the scene, in the background, stands a great billboard depicting cigarette-smoking business executives clothed in expensive suits; their brand of cigarette, the sign announces, is "the brand for the Very Important Person." According to the World Health Organization, advertising in the Third World... offers the fulfillment of three main aspirations; unity, social status, and sex-role identification." Virility is smokiness' promoted and accepted result...
...Christian Science Monitor recently discovered that a Third World cigarette often contains up to four times as much tar as a cigarette of the same brand sold in the United States. This callous, if not criminal, exploitation greatly magnifies the health risks posed by smoking. The results are beginning to show: The newly created epidemic of smoking-related diseases in Third World countries already rivals even infections diseases and malnutrition--historically the Third World's greatest medical problems--in many areas. And since the result of smoking often take 10 to 15 years to manifest themselves, the worst effects still...
...Harvard, fan support is conspicuously absent. Even the brand new Briggs Athletic Center can't lure more than 500 supporters to a game. The cagers aren't a UCLA team, but they aren't winless either, and the hard-fighting Crimson have only been out of a game three times. Coach Frank McLaughlin's team mounted a comeback to nip brother Tom McLaughlin's UMass squad, 45-44, in Amherst earlier this season...
...year. Several weeks ago, I bought about half of the football magazines offered at Out of Town News. And now I've turned to them in hope that they can serve as the Great Books of the football curriculum, striving toward a more honest, traditional and less materialistic brand of football than that which emerged this season...
...battles. Tom McCall was an activist and a realist, who recognized that if man is going to live much longer on this planet, he must learn to take care of it. In an age of overpopulation, starvation, and continual abuse of the natural environment, the importance of McCall's brand of far-reaching environmental planning cannot be overestimated. By initiating strict environmental controls on his own state, McCall set an example for the rest of the nation. Massachusetts and several other states have instituted bottle bills following Oregon's leadership, and national concern about pollution and conservation has increased...