Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clearly aimed at AOL's incessant logjams, then briefly goes silent before viewers are shown CompuServe's logo and a clincher which reads, "Looking for dependable Internet access? CompuServe. Get on with it." CompuServe isn't the only provider trying to get AOL's goat, not to mention its customers. Prodigy is planning a similar AOL-taunting spot and MCI got its shot in today when a spokesman commented, "We certainly think people should be on-line, not in line. If people can't get to the buffet table, they're not coming back." On Wednesday, AT&T made...
...will be offered to TV buyers next week. The premise: to follow the stories of all sorts of women in law enforcement, from prison guards to military personnel to judges. The producers think Clark has just the right kind of take-no-prisoners gumption to anchor it. Not to mention the hair...
...just wasn't sexy enough. While 43 percent of the student body voted in the Undergraduate Council elections in December, a paltry 13 percent registered their opinion on the budget referenda which followed on its heels. Why? Poor timing and poor publicity, not to mention apathy. In the future, the council and the student body should take more seriously the issues, and not merely the personalities spotlighted in the election...
Unfortunately, some developments in the Middle East peace process are less publicized than others, which inevitably leads to bias and misapprehensions. Thus, while most of us know enough to react with indignation to the mention of Noam Friedman, I would wager that very few of us know what to make of the name of Etta Tzur...
...coverage accorded to the Tzur murders in the Western media rarely amounted to more than the brief mention of "a drive-by shooting of two Israeli settlers," usually unnamed and never shown, subsequently blamed for the imposition of a closure on the West Bank town of Ramallah. Occasionally reference was made to the "hard-line" Israeli government: The BBC suspected it "would seize on the incident to slow down the peace process even further." Meanwhile, Etta's husband Yoel and their four other children, aged four to 17--all also wounded in the attack--were left by the press...