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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter, signed by the Class of 1953's "ad hoc committee on the status of women at Harvard/Radcliffe," says the College propagates a sexist atmosphere for women and has made "glacial progress" in hiring female faculty members...
Citibank has been taking full-page ads for what it calls its Stock Index Insured Account. "With this unique account," runs the ad, "your IRA or Keogh deposit actually earns two times the average percentage increase in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index over a five year term. Yet it's 100% safe...
...course, there's a catch. No way could Citibank actually offer you double the stock-market return with no risk, though its ad and brochure make every attempt to convey that impression. But it's entirely legal, fiendishly clever (in a friendly, relatively harmless sort of way) and just one of the many things to be wary of as we desperately reach for alternatives to the 2.5% they're offering down at the local money-market fund...
Close reading of the Citibank ad tells the tale. But if my friend the Wall Street mogul didn't get it, how many widows and orphans will...
Naturally, this is not the example Citibank uses in its ad...