Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once secret CIA memo unearthed by Church. It related how in 1967 a CIA official had warned IRS that the radical magazine Ramparts was planning to publish articles critical of the CIA and the whole Lyndon Johnson Administration. The CIA memo urged that "the corporate tax returns of Ramparts, Inc., be examined [by IRS] and that any leads to possible financial supporters be followed up by an examination of their individual tax returns...
These results are clearly shown in the latest TIME Soundings, a quarterly survey of the mood and outlook of the American people. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc., the New York-based public-opinion research firm...
What is that supposed to mean? Officials of A. & P. and McCann-Erickson Inc., which created the campaign, admit that they have trouble putting the idea into more explicit words. But if stated bluntly, the message might go something like this: A. & P.'s three-year WEO ("Where Economy Originates") drive was a disastrous blunder. The chain went all out to undercut competitors' prices at the expense of quality; brand-name goods became scarce on the shelves, and many stores were allowed to become dirty. Result: customers abandoned A. & P. in droves for rival chains...
...sales position to California-based Safeway. A. & P. had too many stores; many were small and unprofitable, but until recently management did not have the nerve to lop them off. In December, however, Jonathan Scott, 45-year-old head of the Idaho-based Albertson's Inc. chain, was signed on as A. & P.'s first chief executive from the outside, and he has been making the old firm's bones rattle...
Ebert was also criticized, in 1969 and 1972, for his connection with the large pharmaceutical company, Squibb-Beechnut Inc. At first, Ebert was a director of the firm, and resigned when students protested what they called the questionable ethics of serving a drug company and heading a medical school at the same time...