Word: contest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discount retailer's 2,200 stores. You will be regaled with signs and posters trumpeting CBS shows. Every TV set in the store will be tuned to CBS as well. The chain and the network are even teaming up to promote the CBS/K mart Get Ready Giveaway. The contest, to be advertised on the air and in K mart newspaper supplements, will offer viewers the lure of big prizes if they can match numbers on a card with figures flashed during commercial breaks for certain shows...
...there's more for your life at Sears -- at least, if you are an NBC fan. Along with posters, banners and in-store videos flogging the peacock network, the department-store chain and NBC have concocted a contest pegged to the fall season. Unlike the CBS game, however, you do not have to watch NBC shows to win; you just answer a few questions about them to vie for prizes like a new car or a guest appearance on an NBC show...
...really stupid to run in an election you know you have no chance of winning?" Affronted, Doi snapped back, "I've decided right here, at this very moment, that I will run for this election." She went on to win, and has not lost a single contest since...
...battle pitted against each other two contradictory interests that have been at war throughout the takeover era: the short-term enrichment of shareholders vs. longer-term growth and value. Declared the New York Times last month in its reporting on the landmark battle: "The outcome of the legal contest is of critical importance to corporate America...
...Axtell was no joker. He cut a deal and got Warner to donate an official Batman jacket as a prize in a city-wide contest to come up with a new name for the five-year-old program...