Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Protesting the Undergraduate Council's recommendation that Harvard restore special status for the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), approximately 75 students last night launched a campaign to educate students about what they said are serious problems with the council's decision...
...vodka sippers who like to think they can discern the differences among brands, the ad slogan for Smirnoff might be an attractive come-on: "So superior you can taste it." But the $10 million campaign has not gone down so smoothly with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Last week the agency said the slogan does not conform to rules that prohibit distillers from claiming special qualities for spirits they sell as vodka. The agency defines vodka as "without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color...
While admitting that he had reservations about the film "to the extent that it would be exploitative," Ovitz denies that he led a campaign to suppress it. "This movie will rise or fall on its own merits," he says. "There is nothing anyone can do to stop it." Bolstering his argument is the fact that the film, for all its troubles, has found a distributor: Atlantic Entertainment Group, an independent company that has handled such films as Teen Wolf and Wish You Were Here. Some contend that Wired's producers are simply trying to generate controversy over a bad film...
...eerie parallel to the trials of U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, Japan's leading politicians are under fire for misunderstanding -- or missing -- the connection. In both countries, the lines are often hard to draw, as changing standards of morality are applied to the fuzzy world of campaign financing...
...their constituents at weddings, funerals and other rites of passage. A survey of 89 Diet members by the daily Asahi Shimbun showed that each spent about $4,200 a month on an average of seven weddings and 27 funerals. Thus, despite the call by Takeshita and others for campaign-financing reform, University of Tokyo political scientist Takashi Inoguchi remains pessimistic. Says he: "How can we carry out reforms when even the voters are getting money...