Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what sense are Wheaties the breakfasts of champions? Do sports heroes owe their success to a lifetime diet of the cereal? Or is it merely that the folks at General Mills pay the stars to eat their flaky product for the cameras? Those weighty questions were faced squarely last week by Olympic Decathlon Medalist Bruce Tenner, who does commercials for the cereal and whose picture appears on the box. San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas slapped General Mills with a truth-in-advertising suit, charging that Tenner's Wheaties ads falsely imply a causal connection between his taste...
...champion athletes, led us to take action." Freitas' suit demanded proof that Tenner really eats the cereal and that he had done so since childhood. "I like Wheaties, and I eat them two or three times a week," retorted an indignant Tenner at a press conference organized by General Mills. "When you're a hero to young kids," he added gravely, "they're going to take what you say seriously...
Begin: No. Every private idea at this level is an official opinion. Moshe must give you general ideas, without specifics...
...periods on fixed interest rates. They fear that rampant inflation will make a rate that looks attractive now unfavorable in a decade or so. For American lenders, the advantage of buying the Yankee bonds is simple: they collect more interest. Foreign borrowers pay .5% to 1% more than the general yield on triple-A bonds issued by U.S. industrial corporations (now under 8% long term). Yet for foreign borrowers, this high cost of U.S. money remains competitive in most instances with interest rates in the Eurocurrency market, although currency fluctuations can make one or the other market momentarily more attractive...
Daniel Steiner'54, general counsel to the University and a member of the committee that formulated the guidelines, discussed Turner's objections in Washington in late September with spokesmen for the CIA director...