Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several pharmaceutical companies donate, without solicitation, various pieces of equipment and books to the students to promote their products, and to make the students and physicians more aware of the newer, brand name drugs on the market...
...bland, slow-moving story of a mild-mannered assistant market manager (John Denver), who is visited by God (George Burns). God, troubled by all that nasty war and pollution, would like Denver to spread the Word that He wishes it would stop. Denver is understandably reluctant, but relates his story to the media and is declared a nut. The film climaxes, if one can call it that, in a courtroom scene, where Denver is on trial for slandering an odious religious crusader (Paul Sorvino). Shuffling to the rescue, God re-states His message to the court, does a card trick...
...Fuel II will sell for about the same price as coal or natural gas, which is well below the going rate for imported oil. Says CEA President Robert Beningson: "The market for resource recovery is almost limitless." Beningson, a man who thinks big, estimates that if all the garbage in the country were converted to powdered fuel, it would add the equivalent of 2 million bbl. a day to the nation's oil supplies, or about the same amount as the oil that will flow through the Alaska pipeline at peak capacity...
...Chicago for the 92nd convention of the Modern Language Association, the proceedings at times took on the character of a longshoremen's dock shape-up. With so few jobs now opening up in colleges and so many hungry young Ph.D.s in desperate need of positions, the job-market function of the M.L.A. threatened to upstage the intellectual encounter of linguists, English literature and foreign-language professors who make up the M.L.A. 's membership. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan and Reporter Ellie McGrath were on hand to observe...
...networks have scrambled for young audiences-the free-spending youth market favored by advertisers-they may have inadvertently excluded nearly half the population, the 90 million people over 35. Not long ago, shows were designed to appeal to both young and old: for every Elvis Presley he introduced to turn on the kids, Ed Sullivan would follow with a troupe of Liechtensteiner yodelers to soothe their parents...