Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hiring had been discriminatory, and took issue with claims that the percentage of Detroit police employees who were black (17%) was less than the 44% proportion of blacks in the city's population. Applicants for police jobs, the judge pointed out, were drawn from a three-county labor market in which 18.7% of the eligible workers were black. The city of De troit is appealing the Kaess decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati...
...Philadelphia firm where he looked for his first advertising job, Rubicam wrote a scathing letter that launched his career. Always a forceful writer, he ceaselessly sought fresh, strong ad copy when he formed his own agency with John Orr Young. He also introduced to advertising the concept of market research when he hired a then unknown George Gallup to conduct consumer polls...
...Democrat William Proxmire, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who cast the sole negative vote against Miller's nomination, groused that the federal funds advance was wrong because "the economy is not at a point where restraint is appropriate." Investors have shown no such concern. The born-again stock market, say some Wall Streeters, is the "Miller market...
Edison has not yet agreed to accept this gift horse. Even if the Sohio project is approved soon, it cannot accommodate all the West Coast surplus, or even begin to ease it, before 1981. Only a dramatic readjustment in complicated Government oil-pricing policies, freeing the market from entitlements, will solve the basic problems facing shut-in California producers and energy-hungry East Coast consumers...
advocates of the free market, a standoff quite characteristic of the country as a whole. It is hard to remember a past legislative fight where these opposing forces were so evenly matched-and where there was so little readiness to compromise...