Word: inclies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Ray Rogers of Corporate Campaigns, Inc., "the corporate campaign strategy is designed to bring pressure upon management from a variety of sources--not just the workers themselves. It is a simple matter of confronting power with power--and that has brought back into the labor movement a recognition that unions can transform a group of workers into a powerful political and economic force...
...with less sugar and, some claim, the low caloric content of light beers. Get ready to hear a whole lot more about "dry beers," which are being introduced in U.S. bars, restaurants and supermarkets. After only two months of testing in five regional markets, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the nation's biggest brewer, is so enthusiastic about its version of the product -- Michelob Dry -- that it is launching it with the industry's biggest introductory ad campaign since Bud Light. Two other firms have joined in the dry stakes. In early November, G. Heileman Brewing Co. of Wisconsin...
...fifty corporations owned a majority of the nation's book publishing firms, newspapers and broadcasting companies. Under Reagan, that number was halved. Today, only 26 corporations, including such companies as Capital Cities/ABC, Gannet Co., McGraw-Hill, Time, Inc. and Warner Communications own half or more of all the media outlets in the United States. In the 1940s, four out of five U.S. newspapers were privately owned. Today, almost four out of five newspapers are under corporate ownership. Twenty corporations owned most of America's magazines in 1982. By 1987, because of increased mergers and acquisitions, the 20 corporations were reduced...
...reported that "some staff members suggested that the management of the Atlanta newspapers had been under pressure to rein in Mr. Kovach because of his aggressive coverage of [Atlanta's] business community." According to the Times article, the newspaper's investigations had angered David Easterly, president of Cox Enterprises, Inc., which owns the Journal Constitution. Cox Communications is also one of the 15 corporations that own most of the American press...
Since its takeover by Freedom Newspapers, Inc., the 16th largest newspaper chain, the Democrat-Times has referred to Greenville's only Black city council member as an orangutan and, following the parent company's Libertarian politics, has criticized school desegregation laws. As a result, many readers of the paper feel alienated from an institution that should, at least to some extent, represent their interests...