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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strips are usually postcard size and placed in such tony magazines as Vogue, Town & Country and Vanity Fair. The ad is coated with millions of tiny drops of fragrant oils, sealed inside specially designed capsules. The capsules are mixed with a binding agent and affixed to the paper to prevent the scents from bursting during rough handling in the mail. Once the ad is ripped open, the scent behaves just as if it were wafting in the air above the perfume counter...
...toys, and have been denounced by critics as program-length commercials. All are punctuated by pitches for every product from superhero dolls to sugared cereals. Last week Congress moved toward giving the kids a break. By a vote of 328 to 78, the House of Representatives acted to limit ads on children's programming to twelve minutes an hour on weekdays and 10 1/2 minutes on weekends. Ever since a Federal Communications Commission ruling in 1984, broadcasters have been free of any such limits on ad time, though most stations adhere to them voluntarily...
...ad hoc committee of faculty and administrators chaired by Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics David S. Landes was convened for the sole purpose of considering the justice of the policy for allocating the studies. The committee, which met throughout the 1986-87 school year, decided to enforce the existing policy of assigning studies in order of the waiting list, according to Bailey...
...exceeded $1.1 billion, in contrast to $380 million in 1983. Cable is one of the major competitors cutting into the ratings and revenue of the three broadcast networks. "Cable has certainly grabbed our attention," says David Poltrack, vice president of marketing at CBS. "Their $1 billion ((in ad revenue)) is coming out of our hides...
...Anglo-American cast. On Broadway, some 20% of each week's box-office income was set aside for royalties to the creative team, including Novelist King, who otherwise had no role in the show. Another debated expenditure was $500,000 plus for a print, poster and TV ad campaign in New York City before the show opened, much of it teasingly mysterious rather than hard sell...