Word: vice
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...have a policy against the advertising of ideological views in short commercials," 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...
...article she wrote for the Atlantic Monthly which was later followed by a full column devoted to letters of response, adequately demonstrates that she has produced proposals considered worthy of examination, by many, if principally by those who find her worthy of violent rebuttal. As Harold Howe II, vice president for Education and Research at the Ford Foundation said, "Gail Parker is worth hearing--I hope some gutsy board of trustees will give her another shot at a college presidency...
Voluntary control of health care costs by the private sector and increased emphasis on basic health services will direct U.S. health policy during the coming decade, the executive vice president of the American Medical Association (AMA) said yesterday in a speech at the School of Public Health...
...past two decades, Americans have known less about contemporary English art than vice versa, and there is no mystery why. The English, by and large, have not been aggressive in sending the work of their living artists abroad, while American museums, foundations and dealers have flooded Europe with every kind of U.S. "product" from abstract expressionism to photorealism. No market, no museum shows: few American museums in recent years have given any hint that England has sculptors younger than Anthony Caro, or painters less celebrated than David Hockney. Thus the Guggenheim Museum's current show, "British...
Mobil had no trouble in persuading other stations in the three cities to pick up the series, but Herbert Schmertz, the firm's vice president for public affairs, was nonetheless outraged by the stations' actions. Adding to his anger was the earlier refusal of the three major networks to run a more straightforward, nonfabulous commercial. That spot maintained that Mobil's profits are actually lower, in terms of return on invested capital, than those of the networks. The networks' response was much the same as that of the Post-Newsweek stations, but a spokesman...