Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles advertising consultant. Beetle owners who qualify -their cars must be insured and log at least 1,000 miles a month for "exposure" -get a free paint job along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted doctors, professors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers. Themes have included a mustachioed, sombreroed Mexican against an orange background (Ole Tequila), a red baron flying high in a blue sky (Seagram's Gin) and a hearts-and-cupids background emblazoned HOW'S YOUR LOVE LIFE? (Ultra-Brite toothpaste). Owners of Lincolns and Cadillacs have...
...Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, puts on the show at local schools and community meetings -and then asks for cleanup suggestions. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has belatedly appointed a task force of people from seven city and state agencies to investigate Hollywood's problems...
...Most businessmen and labor leaders are opposed to jawboning, guidelines or any other form of wage-price regulation...
...right and duty to print the unpleasant. The more basic question, given the press's attitude, is how well its total coverage reflects reality: Does it seem to harp on the bad because it does not sufficiently record the good? This is the argument frequently made by businessmen, who are the folks who added boosterism to the English language. David J. Mahoney, board chairman...
Jorgenson, 44, argues that the explosive rise in world oil prices has wrought a fundamental change in the U.S. economy-one that bodes well for jobs but holds out dim long-term prospects for curbing inflation or boosting growth. Traditionally, says Jorgenson, businessmen faced with investment decisions have chosen to emphasize spending on machines and other capital equipment over manpower because capital was always 1) cheaper to use than labor and 2) more productive. But machinery burns energy, and thus the quadrupling of oil prices by OPEC since 1973 has sent the cost of using capital through the roof, while...