Word: commerciales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I Feel Good pounds in the background of a TV commercial for spark plugs. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag sells a brand of rice. It's been a long time since the raw, driving soul music of James Brown sounded dangerous to mainstream white America. The rhythm-and...
Besides rounding up all that cash, Bush proposes to reform the system that supervises the thrift industry and insures its deposits. The main regulatory agency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which has been accused of being too chummy with thrift-industry leaders, will be replaced by one chairman who...
* The thrift industry seemed to meet the proposal with grudging acceptance but a fair amount of grumbling. Healthy S & Ls object philosophically to paying excessive cleanup costs for their fraudulent and incompetent brethren. Says Adam Jahns, chairman of Chicago's Craigin Federal Savings & Loan: "I don't think we should...
The shipwreck is one result of the largely unregulated growth of Antarctic enterprise. Says Peter Wilkniss, head of the National Science Foundation's polar programs: "We are witnessing the dawn of the commercial age in Antarctica." Thousands of tourists are flocking to the once inaccessible continent. Throughout the 1984-85...
Whittle's plan to introduce commercial television into the classroom has sparked considerable controversy. "I think it's appalling and greedy," says Arnold Fege of the national PTA. Whittle counters that the venture will not only inform students about current events but also provide schools with valuable hardware to increase...