Word: pepping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cruise's latest film All the Right Moves--the saga of Stefan Djordjevic's attempt to work his way out of poverty through high-school football--confirms this hope. While All the Right Moves has the potential ingredients of a trash film--the high school setting, the football pep rallies, the steamy sex scenes--it is clearly more than an insipid adolescent anatomy lesson. In fact, because so much of the film deals with larger, more universal themes than the Ampipe High School Bulldogs' unsuccessful attempts to "kick the other team's ass," All the Right Moves has little trouble...
...shot oil and gas ventures. Says Texas Governor Mark White: "Midland helped a lot of people to make a lot of money." So last week when the troubled First National Bank of Midland was about to collapse under the burden of energy loans gone sour, the community staged a pep rally to stem a run on its deposits. About a thousand citizens gathered in Midland's Civic Center, many of them wearing lapel stickers that proclaimed I'M CONFIDENT. Oilman John Redfern Jr. told the crowd, "I hope you'll rake around, find some dough...
Even before the appearance of the repackaged capsules, Burke was host at a pep rally for the company's 2,250 sales representatives. The theme: "We're coming back." Burke exhorted them to call on physicians and pharmacists to aid the company in reassuring consumers. By the end of the year, 1 million such calls had been made. Testimonial-style TV ads were aired. In one, a woman professed her trust, saying, "My first experience with Tylenol was in a hospital, after my son Christopher was born. Since then it's become one of the things...
Well, next year--1981--finally rolled around, and the traditional spell of House football began to descend upon Harvard. The air was brisk, spirits soaring, and Lowell Coach Mike Pontrelli called his warriors together for a pre-season pep talk...
Kansas City threw a huge pep rally last month, complete with a 25-member song-and-dance troupe. Yet there were no football players proudly strutting through tissue-paper arches. The head cheerleader was president of the Chamber of Commerce. The team being hailed: the city's teachers...