Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aching from a 19-point slide in the polls after a slew of controversial comments in Playboy Magazine, Ventura refused to back down from some of his most colorful comments at several campus events yesterday--and added a few more to the media stew...
Ventura brags that his dominant selling point is that he is decidedly a political outsider...
...business leaders point to existing industry safeguards that protect children from inappropriate advertising...
Most advertisers and researchers agree that manipulating children into desiring harmful products--such as tobacco or alcohol--is a problem, but the psychologists who signed the letter to the APA point to a deep-rooted problem in consumer culture--treating children as a separate market...
Kessler and other psychologists point out that ads tell children that they will be happy and loved if they buy the product, thereby furthering a materialistic society...