Word: blitz
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...National Collegiate Athletic Association's book of rules and manners. Merely by negotiating, emphatically by signing, he met the N.C.A.A.'s classic criteria of a pro. The Canadian Football League romanced Walker two years ago. The N.C.A.A. permits a man to hear an offer. More recently Chicago Blitz Coach George Allen, never one to wait for a draft choice in his National Football League days, simply mailed Walker a contract to play in the U.S.F.L. That may have been what started drawing Herschel offsides...
McManus says repeatedly that the John Birch Society has been "victimized" by that and other incidents. That may be so. A negative media blitz against the Society escalated just after it began to establish a sense of legitimacy the public had never before allowed. Since then, the Society has tried to rebuild itself by softening some of its earlier stances while still maintaining that a decentralized powerless national government will cure society's ills...
...Intermediate-range Nuclear Force (INF) negotiations and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), both of which are under way in Geneva. In sending Bush to Europe and Secretary of State George Shultz to Japan, China and South Korea, the Administration was trying last week to counter the Soviet p.r. blitz with some salesmanship of its own. The American emissaries carried no fresh initiatives of real substance. Instead, they sought to reassure America's allies with friendly rhetoric and promises of flexibility on both arms control and other tender issues. To a large extent, each man succeeded, though Reagan...
With those words, the Vice President fired his opening salvo in a hastily arranged twelve-day, seven-country public relations blitz calculated to win the hearts and minds of the growing number of Western Europeans troubled by the missile issue. Their major concern: that U.S. rigidity in negotiating an arms control agreement with Moscow would mean almost certain deployment of 572 U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning at the end of the year. Bush's task is formidable. He will strive to present a "flexible" U.S. commitment to arms control while asking the Europeans...
...company also claims to have come up with a special process to package a fresher-tasting orange juice. It has mounted a classic P & G campaign to promote Citrus Hill brand juice in Iowa and Indiana with cents-off coupons, free samples and a TV advertising blitz. This venture marks another bold confrontation with Coca-Cola, which makes Minute Maid, the bestselling orange juice...