Word: ad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to retire the train, and meanwhile is trying to persuade the Amtrak system to assume its operation. That of course could mean substitution of all-coach subway cars and sandwich bars for first-class sleeping cars and gently swaying restaurants-per ardua ad Amtrak...
...Ad Board is a group of senior tutors and deans and nonstudents who arbitrarily deal out punishments--it's a medieval system that dictates to the students," the student added...
Almost every member of the Lampoon was required to write a letter to the Ad Board defending themselves, sources said...
Last May an ad hoc student Committee on Women's Studies submitted a petition to Dean Rosovsky bearing over 1100 student signatures, asking him to consider creating a concentration in women's studies...
...establishment, to exert the kind of boat-rocking power denounced by such critics as Senator William Proxmire and a few TV Guide columnists. Thus it is safer and more profitable for a newspaper to denounce "Son of Sam" or the Hillside Strangler than neighborhood supermarket pricing policies. Especially on ad-filled Thursdays. "My life in journalism has persuaded me that the press too often tries to guard its freedom by shirking its responsibility, and that this leads to default on both," he writes. "What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint...