Word: consumerized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other military experts support the establishment of an industrial policy for defense. New York City Democrat Ted Weiss, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is among a growing school of defense experts proposing "dual-use" planning by military contractors to seek commercial as well as defense applications for...
For antismoking crusaders who want to ban cigarette advertising, the Camel ad was a handy piece of evidence. "The most appalling in decades," declared physician Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group. The four-page Camel ad, which was aimed at vacation-bound youths, offered tips like...
By a vote of 4 to 1, the city council passed an ordinance prohibiting the manufacture, sale and use of virtually all ozone-depleting chemicals. Banned are plastic food packagings made with CFCs, certain types of building insulation and some solvents widely used for cleaning printed circuit boards in personal...
"Now, let me say to you, you're not dealing with ignoramuses on this committee. The IRS world that you describe . . . it's like the land of Oz, and you are the wizards." Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr. delivered that blistering rebuke last week to Michael Murphy, deputy commissioner of...
Though the DC-10 had suffered no serious problems since a string of crashes in the late 1970s, superstitious air travelers were beginning to wonder if the plane was now simply too spooked to fly. No less troubled was the International Airline Passengers Association, a Dallas-based consumer group that...