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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donato was suspended until December 1 by the Ad Board for an incident at the Lampoon on April 21 in which a female undergraduate was allegedly injured by Donato. The junior forward plans to appeal to the Ad Board for permission to practice and play with the squad before December...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: There Ain't No Cure for the Summertime News | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...shoemaker's fortunes rely heavily on advertising. Nike's theme, "Just Do It," which urges would-be customers to get off their couches and onto their exercise bicycles, has been widely praised. But Reebok's recent "Let U.B.U." ad campaign, which starred eccentric characters in surrealistic situations, was considered a bust. All the major manufacturers have hired celebrity pitchmen. Nike pays multitalented pro athlete Bo Jackson to sell its cross- trainer shoe, and Joan Benoit Samuelson to advertise its running line. L.A. Gear keeps retired Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on its payroll; his former coach Pat Riley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foot's Paradise | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...group of bankers found that out the hard way recently after telling the President that they supported his efforts to rescue the savings-and-loan industry. Sununu pulled out an ad the bankers were running trying to scare depositors away from S & Ls and into banks. "I take it, then," he growled, "this sort of thing will stop." When a utility boss complained that Bush's clean-air proposals would drive up his electricity rates, Sununu retorted that the utility already enjoyed rates below the national average, which the Government subsidized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Bad Cop | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

Kleck says his study did not consider the question of lives saved. Nor did he conclude, as the N.R.A. claims, that a crime or an assault had been "thwarted" in each of his estimated 645,000 (the ad upped it to 650,000) annual instances of a protective use of a gun. Kleck notes that his study may have included incidents in which a homeowner merely heard noisy youths outside his house, then shouted, "Hey, I've got a gun!" and never saw any possible attacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Guns Save Lives? | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...pelvis physicality of Dirty Dancing to a steamy Brazilian beat. Spawned on the northeast coast of Brazil, the lambada has swept through France this summer. A soda commercial showing young bodies entwined in a lambada frenzy was an instant hit, and Lambada, a song that served as the ad's sound track, has sold more than 1 million copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Dirty Dancing, Ma Cherie? | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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