Word: mobiles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer has a capitalistic economy [April 21]. What we have instead is an aristocracy of Big Business-a handful of conglomerates that control every facet of American life. The American consumer no longer has a choice. Whatever "rose" I pick, the name turns out to be Mobil or Ford or General Foods...
...four U.S. partners in the Ara, bian American Oil Co., issued a statement that it would be "extremely unfortunate" if the show were to hurt U.S.-Saudi relations, but insisted it would not try to inhibit its being shown by threatening to cut off its PBS spending. Mobil, another PBS angel and Aramco partner, ran an ad on the New York Times's Op-Ed page denouncing the film as "a fairy tale" and urging PBS management to "review its decision" to run the film "in the light of what is in the best interests...
These events formed the basis for a television show which New York Times political columnist Mobil Oil has labeled "A new fairy tale." But the events are real, and they took place in Saudi Arabia only three years...
...response from business was irritation, self-defense and what amusement it could afford. Du Pont Chairman Irving S. Shapiro called Big Business Day "an ideological Woodstock." Mobil Vice President Herb Schmertz said it was "demonstration by press release." The U.S. Chamber of Commerce covered the front of its Washington office with gigantic American flags and probusiness signs. "This is obviously a self-serving day by Ralph Nader and some labor leaders," said President Richard Lesher. The conservative Heritage Foundation declared April 17 "Growth...
...wander through rambling, almost incoherent sentences. Now he raps out short, crisp remarks, sometimes punching at the air like a boxer for emphasis, and spices his delivery with sarcastic wit. Deriding Carter's claims that decontrol of oil prices will spur more domestic exploration for petroleum, he notes that Mobil several years ago used some of its rising profits to buy Montgomery Ward. He asks: "How much oil do you think they'll discover drilling in the aisles of Montgomery Ward department stores...