Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over again. Its near-monopoly of the testing market (hardly surprising when most similar companies don't enjoy ETS's tax-free status as a "non-profit educational institution"), and the subsequent absence of competition, have removed the usual pressures that normally regulate corporations in a market economy. Its "client organizations" like the College Board--devoted offspring of the mother organization--are no more likely or able to force changes on ETS than college admissions offices. Everyone seems to have accepted the ETS line--"Well, it may not be perfect, but there has to be some objective standard...
...added, "wants no special position or sphere of influence in Africa." American interests would be "best served by an Africa seeking its own destiny free of outside intervention." Clearly referring to the Russians, who imported 13,000 Cuban troops into Angola late last year to put a client in power in the former Portuguese colony, Kissinger added: "The rivalry and interference of non-African powers would make a mockery of Africa's hard-won struggle for independence from foreign domination. It will inevitably be resisted...
What happens to an adman if his client wins, or retains the White House? Malcolm MacDougall, a political independent who had never met Ford before August, plans to return to Boston, where he may continue to handle some political accounts. As for Rafshoon, he doubts that an adman would be needed in Jimmy's Administration. "Besides," Rafshoon says unconvincingly, "he would probably reorganize me right out of a job before it was over with...
...author make. The Front's best comic moments occur as Allen, whose character is just barely literate, tries to act the role of author. His worst moment (and one of the film's best comic scenes): an attempt at an on-set rewrite of one of his client's scripts...
...that she "didn't have a case" against the daughter of his longtime personal secretary. The cleared attorney won in the primaries despite another charge hanging over his head: he has been accused of failing to forward "at least a couple of hundred dollars" in child support to a client...