Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Madison Avenue's most enduring -- if not hardest-working -- characters: the Maytag repairman. Billed as "the loneliest guy in the world" because the company's products supposedly never break down, he has been portrayed by actor Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed up. Like many corporate superstars before...
...student called the week's events the "start of a new campaign for divestment...
THIS summer, during the presidential campaign, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis belittled the critical voices that were just beginning to speak out, saying, "Those are Jerry Williams' people." While Williams, who hosts a show on WRKOAM, is indeed one of the governor's most vocal critics, Dukakis' comments made it seem as if his foes included only a small lunatic fringe...
...really represented the early venting of public opinion against the Democratic nominee. Had the governor and his slick advisors been more astute and listened to what the citizens of the Commonwealth had to say, they might have been able to mitigate many of the problems that later plagued his campaign. It seems foolish that politicians would spend so much money on elaborate polling procedures, when they can get an instantaneous update on popular opinion by just flipping on the radio...
...Gilligan says that the lessons of her research have been born out at Harvard during the union campaign...