Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some are still reeling from Title IX's implications for athletics, which frequently means schools must pump money into women's sports in order to avoid the appearance of inequity. Still focused on creating equal playing fields, most have not even considered the implications of Title IX for single-sex mentoring and counseling programs...
...1950s, when the hard sell was hard to avoid, Stan Freberg came along to show Madison Avenue that the commercial could be a miniature work of art--and sometimes of daring. Freberg pitched Meadowgold milk in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, hawked Pittsburgh paints with a takeoff on Moby Dick, and decked out Ann Miller with a Busby Berkeley chorus line to trumpet Heinz's Great American Soups. He produced radio ads for the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to end the Vietnam War and, perhaps even gutsier, persuaded Pacific Airlines to let him do a series of ads poking...
...dangerous precedent, encouraging subjects to air their interviews online or even give them to a rival news organization. "It could put you at a competitive disadvantage," says NBC Dateline executive producer Neal Shapiro, who fears the episode could encourage sloppy journalism, as reporters rush their stories out to avoid being beaten. Some TV news executives are considering whether they should require subjects who tape interviews to sign an agreement not to distribute the material beforehand. And some skeptics wonder about Ellis' commercial motives in the whole episode. Everybody who logs on to his site is, after all, a potential customer...
...afford to enter an arms race it can't win, has so far been unmoved since the U.S. announced its plans in January, it has been considering an appeal to the U.N. for help in enforcing the existing treaty, something the U.S. would dearly love to avoid...
Despite Moscow?s best efforts to avoid repeating its 1994-96 debacle in Chechnya, its campaign appears to lack coordination and coherence. "This has disaster written all over it," says Meier. "It?s the wrong time of year to be getting drawn into an offensive, and Moscow has rebuffed attempts at negotiation by Chechen president Mashkadov, who remains the territory?s most credible moderate leader. It looks as if there?s very little coordination among Russia?s political leaders and its generals, and there?s no long-term strategy evident." To be sure, analysts agree that a battle for Grozny...