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Pepsi recently announced that it decided to cancel prematurely its Madonna ad, but added that the decision was in no way sparked by outrage and calls for a Pepsi boycott from Christian groups. Sure. Nothing like explaining a cool $5 million toilet flush to your shareholders, now is there...
Those students who did attend class had to cross picket lines--at the height of the strike, two-thirds of the student body observed the boycott...
...scam babes" and turn the traditional Florida fling vacation "into your own personal trout farm." But the Beachin' Times, a color supplement that appeared in 55 campus newspapers in the U.S., has been wiped out by indignant collegians. At the University of Wisconsin, students even threatened to boycott the Milwaukee company's brew, while the Daily Iowan's editorial column slammed Miller for "propaganda that is so blatantly offensive to a wide variety of people." Miller responded to the uproar by canceling the advertisement's future appearances. Said company spokeswoman Susan Henderson: "We blew...
Their Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front had called for a boycott and launched widespread attacks to keep voters at home...
...have become the new guardians of quality. The trouble is: Whose definition of quality? Campaigns against "tasteless" shows usually come from the most conservative elements of American society. One pressure group, Christian Leaders for Responsible TV, is making plans to monitor TV programming this spring and to organize a boycott of major sponsors of "anti-Christian" shows. Rakolta's objections to Married . . . With Children managed to miss totally the show's satirical point. This sitcom family -- male-chauvinist husband, unliberated wife, sluttish teenage daughter -- is being lampooned by exaggeration. The same sort of complaints -- just as misguided -- were launched against...