Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tradition of another Harvard graduate Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, these activists were using civil disobedience to express their dissatisfaction with the University's refusal to divest of its South Africa-related stocks. The protesters hoped their arrests would make an outside world--inundated by laudatory cover stories--aware that not everything was rosy in the land of Crimson...
...resulting blend of politics and commercial advertising techniques can sometimes be startling. Democratic Senate Hopeful Wyche Fowler of Georgia satirizes the American Express commercials by strolling through a rack of clothes asking "Do you know me? I'm Congressman Wyche Fowler, and I think you are paying too much interest on bank credit cards." California's Republican Senate candidate Ed Zschau piggybacks on the popularity of Bartles & Jaymes cooler commercials by featuring two good ol' boys sitting on a front porch musing about the number of floor votes missed by Incumbent Democrat Alan Cranston. "Three hundred forty-seven of them...
...brand-new, high-tech business blasted off in the U.S. last week: satellite launching. Martin Marietta, which manufactures Titan-class rockets for the Air Force, signed an agreement with Federal Express to send aloft its ExpressStar communications satellite in 1989. President Reagan had opened the way for the new industry last month, when he an- nounced that NASA will drastically reduce the number of commercial cargoes carried aboard the space shuttle...
...Denver crisis illustrated some of the snarls that have entangled parts of the airline industry -- and especially People Express -- in the stiff competitive environment that People did so much to create. The revolutionary . discount airline could no longer afford to operate Frontier, which it had bought only last November, since the Denver-based subsidiary was dropping an estimated $10 million monthly. Even after the shutdown, People was losing about $1 million a day as a result of its ownership of Frontier, and in the view of many analysts, is being kept alive largely on the $46.7 million from United. Chicago...
...heated maneuvering continued. People Express Chairman Donald Burr later said the parent company had canvassed "every other available alternative," including the possible sale of Frontier to other parties. Eventually, rumors began to grow that Newark-based People, which only five years ago threw the entire passenger-airline industry into a tailspin, might itself be quietly on the backroom auction block...