Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scorched-earth campaigns have pointed out the hazards of widely used headache remedies such as Tylenol and Advil as dramatically as any critic could. And that can't be good for business. J&J's McNeil Consumer products unit, which makes Tylenol, has sold 240 billion tablets and capsules of Tylenol over the past three decades. Tylenol represents more than $800 million in annual sales for J&J, which last year had total sales of $18.8 billion. But Tylenol's market share has been slipping, to 30.1% last year from...
...gambling as an economic savior. But for all its glitter, gambling's gold is, in many cases, more mirage than miracle, because in addition to the obvious fiscal benefits there are many less obvious economic and social costs. For one, notes Robert Goodman, author of The Luck Business, a critic of the industry, "casinos are an extremely regressive means of financing government" since many gamblers are low income-retirees on Social Security, blue-collar workers, even welfare recipients...
...best film? Of the five nominated films, "Sense and Sensibility" is my personal favorite. "Apollo 13," aside from a few genuinely thrilling moments, was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. The movie did not get off the ground until the astronauts did. To quote film critic David Denby, it's the Bob Dole of films. As for the rest: "Babe" stars animals and animatronics; who wants to see "Braveheart"?--not me; "The Postman" was sweet, but it has only received this much attention because its star died...
Over the summers, I have dedicated myself to journalistic interests. As an intern at the Boston Phoenix, I aided then media critic, now Boston Globe Ombudsperson, Mark Jurkowitz. This summer, I will intern with ABC's "This Week" with David Brinkley...
DIED. MEYER SCHAPIRO, 91, art critic, historian and lecturer whose insights into the broad social context of everything from Romanesque sculpture to modern painting influenced scholars, curators and creators of art from the 1930s to the present; in Manhattan...