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Interested students at the Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government have contacted Abbasi about fund raising in cafeterias and dining halls at those graduate schools. The graduate school blitz will be before Christmas, the undergraduate organizers said...
Reagan sees his 49-state electoral blitz as a mandate for continuity...
...IMPORTANT HEALTH WARNING TO WOMEN USING AN I.U.D., proclaim the austere but imposing ads currently appearing in newspapers and magazines. The $4 million media blitz by the pharmaceutical maker A.H. Robins of Richmond represents one of the most extensive product-warning campaigns in history. The company is attempting to alert women in the U.S. who are still using the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Produced from 1970 to 1974, the I.U.D.s have been blamed for thousands of cases of severe pelvic infections, sterility and other maladies. By last week at least 400 women had followed...
...women, Hispanics, blacks and supporters of a nuclear freeze. He hoped that Reagan's embrace of Moral Majority Leader Jerry Falwell would not sit well in a state known for its liberal lifestyle. The Democrats signed up 660,000 new voters and spent $4 million on a media blitz. But Reagan won by 16 percentage points. Mondale did not fare as well among California Hispanics as he had hoped; according to an ABC exit poll, he beat Reagan by only 62% to 34%. Even 13% of California's blacks chose Reagan...
Luckily for the survivors, most analysts predict record Christmas sales, whipped up by promotion campaigns timed to coincide with the start of the buying blitz. Apple and IBM are expected to spend $30 million each on advertising before Christmas. Says InfoCorp Analyst Howard Purer: "December should just go off the page." - By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco