Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...band started its cursing crusade only after "nights of soul-searching" convinced its members that Japan's notoriously lax antipollution laws needed divine guidance. At first, the group was apprehensive. "I felt like an idiot, an impossible Buddhist Quixote in this age of technology," recalls Masaki Umehara. The public felt differently. To many Japanese, the picture of a solitary band of Buddhists silhouetted against smoke-belching factories suggested latter-day samurai...
Buoyed by their impact thus far, the group plans to expand its excoriation campaign next month. And last week Japan's Diet gave the curses added clout. In response to growing public rage, the upper house passed an unusually tough environmental package aimed at polluters who endanger human health. Those caught and convicted now face up to seven years in prison...
...economic problems, social and racial tensions aggravated businessmen's distress in 1970. Shoplifting has tripled since 1959. The trend alarms many merchants, who point out that pilferage now costs them-and their customers-2½? out of every dollar of sales. Insurance executives, defending themselves against the public outcry over mass cancellations of burglary and fire policies, argue that private companies can hardly be expected to absorb the cost of crime and urban violence...
Practical Gifts. Even more ominous than total sales are the signs that a new parsimony in gift giving has infected the public. "The average sale is going to be down this year," says Robert Daly, Chicago district manager of Montgomery Ward. "Christmas business is spotty," adds Ralph Lazarus, chairman of Federated Department Stores. "Shoppers are buying pure necessities but not luxury items." complains Richard Lusk, head of the Denver Retail Merchants Association...
...gradually create a portrait of Victorian life-social sport, gossip, entertainment-centered on a succession of gory crimes. In the process the author dispels once again the myth that a genteel, civilized Victorian England ever existed. Its underside was a subculture of squalor, misery and brutality, all sanctioned by public apathy...