Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aids Just A Start--which focuses on improving housing, stabilizing financial situations and providing jobs and training for low-income Cantabrigians--with financial support and job placement for low-income residents, said Gordon N. Gottsche, the executive director of Just A Start...
...question Niccol's vision of the future of TV: not 500 channels nattering to niche markets but one big show binding the world in the bogus bliss of pink-cheeked Americana. And the idea of a program uninterrupted by commercials (Christof makes his money from product placement and ancillary markets) is nearly as naive as Truman. The show is also pretty tame. Unlike most daytime-drama characters, Truman is a faithful husband who has no evil twin and does not suffer bouts of amnesia. For 30 years the show has been a pageant of placidity, a hypoallergenic soap opera where...
...story about preliminary data on laboratory animals spiral so completely out of control? The key is Kolata's piece in the Times and the prominent placement her editors gave it. "Within a year," she began, "if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer, with no obvious side effects and no drug resistance--in mice." It was a sentence that couldn't help grabbing readers' attention--despite those critical two words, "in mice"--and holding it throughout the rest of the story...
Kolata stood by her story--as did the Times. "We are entirely comfortable with the coverage and the placement of the article," says Nancy Nielsen, a spokesperson for the newspaper. As for Watson's quote: "We don't wish to get into a quarrel with a respected scientist, but we are confident in the accuracy of our story...
Although the poster in question had been hanging in Lowell House for at least four years, its placement was inconspicuous and the students and tutors I spoke with said they barely ever noticed it. But when people began to complain, the poster was immediately replaced with an innocuous watercolor. As Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 explained to me, there was no need to have a poster that offended somebody hanging in the dining hall, especially one without any monetary value...