Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imitate." They can do that. They've got every right to give Madonna $10 million, put it on television every night if they want to. All I'm saying is "Don't ask me to buy Pepsi if you do it. You've got the right to spend your money where you want to; I've got the right to spend my money where I want to . . . " and obviously, evidently, I was somewhat right in that because Pepsi agreed. They canceled their commercial and their world tour...
...respond very simply: the networks can show what they want to show. The advertiser can sponsor what he wants to sponsor. And the consumer can spend his money where he wants to. What the implication is there is that I must spend my money with these companies to help support these programs that I find offensive. I don't believe that...
...restoring U.S. competitiveness in the 1990s. At the very least, the managers and employees of Time, Warner and Paramount stand to be distracted for months by the takeover struggle. And while a clash of the titans may be an exciting spectacle, it can waste huge amounts of time and money that might better be used to improve products at home and compete with firms abroad...
Overnight the savage massacre in Tiananmen Square shattered Hong Kong's wary faith in that future. Thousands donned funeral garb to mourn the dead of Beijing. The stock market plunged 22% in one day in a paroxysm of lost confidence. Chinese flocked to mainland banks to withdraw their money, as much in anger as in fear. And the largely apolitical people of this freewheeling monument to commercialism discovered a newfound political activism...
...Kong are the latest expression of a startling change in the colony's view of itself. Throughout its almost 150- year history as a bold, pushy trading enclave, the business of Hong Kong has been business. The colony was a place where foreigners and Chinese alike came to make money and get away from the political turmoil on the mainland. But since the student movement blossomed in Beijing last April, Hong Kong has been galvanized. It has found an identity at last, and it is Chinese...