Word: detroiters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jumps at the opportunity to deny any wrondoing. But his real concern is following his carefully-laid game plan. Bush hopes to recreate Jimmy Carter's successful drive to the presidency; he knows that Ronald Reagan cannot survive a second humiliation. But if he is to march triumphantly to Detroit in July he must run ahead of Reagan tomorrow or next week. To keep his candidacy moving, George Bush must hold to his campaign plan. That game plan leaves no place for defeat
...plight of the American city has grown worse since Carter took office. Devastating fiscal crises have recently pushed Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Memphis and many other cities dangerously close to bankruptcy. More tragically, poverty persists for millions of urban dwellers. One out of three children born in New York City, for example, are born out of wedlock--many to adolescent mothers whose welfare checks form their only source of income. But New York's financial woes have made it impossible for that city to increase its welfare payments since 1974 with the effect that inflation has eaten away half...
...says G. William Ryan, vice president and general manager of Hartford, Connecticut's WFSB-TV, the first station to reject Mobil's advertisements. If stations do not uphold this kind of policy, Ryan says, "the public could be swayed based upon the economic strength of certain advertisers." WDIV of Detroit, Michigan, and WJXT of Jacksonville, Florida, joined their sister Washington Post-Newsweek station in refusing...
...million, and the industry finished the year operating at only 65% of capacity. The slowdown in new car sales is only part of the problem. Because people are driving less and are switching to smaller cars that do not wear down tires as fast as Detroit's fading dinosaurs, the replacement market has gone flat. Result: tire sales are now creeping ahead by an estimated 2% annually-at a time when the companies need much cash to deal with two big problems...
...attached to Edward and Mrs. Simpson, a six-part British-made and Mobil-syndicated series about the romance that led to the abdication of King Edward VIII. No one objects to the series, but officials at three stations owned by the Washington Post-Newsweek broadcast group-in Jacksonville, Detroit and Hartford-told Mobil that the ads violated their ban against advocacy commercials. "We believe that controversial issues should be dealt with in our news and public affairs programs," says Amy McComb, manager of Jacksonville's WJXT. Adds Joel Chaseman, president of the Post-Newsweek stations: "We have a policy...