Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 "how to impress someone at the beach: Run into the water, grab someone and drag her back to the shore, as if you've saved her from drowning. The more she kicks and screams the better...
...with Old Glory, Fort Union conveyed a flashy, mercantile style and substance until smallpox twice struck the Indians and homesteaders encroached on their lands, eclipsing the trade. By 1866 the once proud post had lapsed into disrepair, and the U.S. Army dismantled it. Five years ago, a local citizens' group spearheaded reconstruction of the flagpole. Then for three summers, a squad of 45 archaeologists working for the Park Service set about excavating artifacts. Under a $4 million federal appropriation, the bourgeois house and palisade were meticulously rebuilt. "It's a shining example of a government agency and the private sector...
...another deal that was driven by global ambitions, shareholders of SmithKline Beckman, developer of the anti-ulcer drug Tagamet, last week approved a merger with London's Beecham Group, which has built strong European markets. One week earlier Dow Chemical agreed to merge its Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals subsidiary with Marion Laboratories, whose chief prescription drug is Cardizem, an angina treatment. In the afterglow of the Time-Warner marriage and other such deals, companies in many industries may gain greater confidence to embark on friendly combinations...
BEIRUT--The pro-Iranian group holding Joseph J. Cicippio said yesterday it would spare his life temporarily but indicated that the American still could be killed "within days" unless Israel met new, tougher terms...
...Lebanese group sent a videotaped message to a Western news agency to announce the indefinite postponement of Cicippio's execution...