Word: packer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Winning isn't everything, winning is the only thing," is a quote often attributed to either former Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi or deposed ex-President Richard Nixon. But after the Harvard women's basketball team lost to Rhode Island 77-57 on Saturday night to fall to 1-4, its attitude belied the truth of that old adage...
...bellowing excerpts from a Washington Post article through a bullhorn to Canadians on the far shore. WXYT, a Detroit AM station, provides Canadians in neighboring Windsor with an hour-long reading of the same article. The show, seditiously dubbed "Radio Free Windsor," has a loftier purpose, according to Michael Packer, WXYT's director of operations: "It's a reminder to the American side of the importance of freedom of the press...
...better consumer-goods managers are using these facts to advantage. Distillers Remy Martin and Courvoisier regularly run Mandarin- and Cantonese- dialect Cognac ads in Chinese newspapers and magazines. And meat packer Hormel & Co. designed some of Spam's in-store promotional displays in Korean. Others have stumbled. A New York Life Insurance Co. ad designed to appeal to Koreans failed miserably because it used a Chinese model. Citibank had to drop a New Year's holiday TV ad targeted at Chinese consumers after viewers complained about the sexual innuendo of corks popping out of champagne bottles. The bank replaced...
Last spring, Bayley and five classmates who also had Packer for Expos approached the administration individually. Bayley wrote a letter to Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence A. Buell, Marius' boss...
...vast majority of the 71 current and former Expos teachers interviewed for this series say department policies, including the four-year limit imposed on Packer and others, negatively impact the quality of teaching...