Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Efforts made to influence Nestles to adopt appropriate policies for marketing have failed. Because Nestles is a foreign-based company, it is not possible for Americans to force change by using shareholder resolutions or similar efforts, which might produce desirable alterations in the practices of U.S.-based corporations. Nestles is by far the largest of the sellers of manufactured infant formula to Third World countries, and currently has over one-third of the market. Evidence is clear that the Nestles boycott is worrying the company, and is beginning to result in policy changes. It is also obvious that Nestles...
...false impression that breast feeding is primitive and bottle feeding is sophisticated. But the main reason that women in developing countries bottle feed is that they falsely believe it is better for their infants. This belief has come largely from the promotional practices of the corporations who market infant formulas...
...normally go after anybody who's on any list we obtain," he said, adding, "The main thing is to get it stopped as soon as possible so people don't lose money--the market is getting saturated...
...bigger crop. Whether he wins he will not know for many months. He has signed a contract to sell 40% of his wheat crop, for a price that he says "will cover costs and a little more," and will store the rest to release whenever he judges market conditions to be right. At current prices, about $3 a bushel, his wheat crop would be worth...
...dark, claustrophobic canvases. Indeed, his suicide gave his art a simplified legibility that it did not really have? the operatic wholeness of art and life that a myth-hungry audience expects of peintres maudits. In a grisly sort of way, Rothko's suicide has been taken by the art market as a proof of sincerity and translated into cash value. His paintings easily doubled in price within a year of his death. A long, bitter and sensational court battle ensued, during which Rothko's children successfully fought one of the world's biggest art dealers, Marlborough Galleries, for having contrived...