Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week McDonnell Douglas decided to drop out of the sales race and scrapped plans for its new-generation DC-X-200, which would have competed directly with Boeing's 767 in tomorrow's big market for mediumrange, wide-bodied jets. Instead, McDonnell Douglas will concentrate on a stretched and upgraded version of its long-range DC-10 jumbo...
...name game, though epidemic, will probably do no serious harm unless it at last hypnotizes everybody into forgetting that substance remains vitally important. Already, far too many things that reach the American market under beguiling names turn out, on close inspection, to be turkeys and lemons. Frank Trippett
Both Davis and Minnelli are personality pushers who market their mannerisms like commodities. If you think they are repeating themselves, they are. When was the last time they were caught doing anything remotely fresh? Their fans wouldn't stand for it. They come not to watch a show or to see the gods and goddesses of the tabloids deign to immerse themselves in specific roles. Such play-goers attend the theater only to bathe in the effulgence of celebrityhood...
...every four students with bachelor's degrees will have to settle for a job that generally has not required a college education. In its Occupational Outlook for College Graduates, the bureau predicts that between 1976 and 1985, some 10.4 million people with undergraduate degrees will enter the job market with only 7.7 million finding the sorts of jobs that traditionally demand those degrees. The remaining 2.7 million will have to take jobs for which they are overeducated or go unemployed...
...that Ken and Barbie Doll have married and raised the family and presum- ably divorced, history has moved on. What wears one earring, a flannel cowboy shirt, denim jeans, and comes packaged in a cardboard closet? Gay Bob, alleged to be the first gay doll on the market. His inventor, former Advertising Executive Harvey Rosenberg, claims that Gay Bob looks like "a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford," and he costs $15. Rosenberg's invention is not for homosexuals alone, says an accompanying brochure: "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come...