Word: prescreening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evil gremlins and voodoo heart transplants and dirty words and bare skin. And they love this new PG-13 rating that'll supposedly keep kids like me out of pictures like those. Heck, Mom, you know I don't take that stuff seriously. I just go to prescreen the movies and tell you if I think you'd find them disturbing. And if they won't let me in, I'll go around the corner and rent the movie on videocassette...
...this statement, members of the ACSR attempted to formulate new resolutions that would somehow ensure that the University did not end up purchasing stock in companies that do not meet minimum standards of conduct in their South African operations. Committee members unanimously supported a recommendation advising the Corporation to prescreen all companies. The ACSR also recommended that the University use the Sullivan Principles as the bare minimum requirement for investing in a company, and that it sell its stock in any company that fails to meet these minimum standards. This term's actions culminated with the unprecedented...
...this statement, members of the ACSR attempted to formulate new resolutions that would somehow ensure that the University did not end up purchasing stock in companies that do not meet minimum standards of conduct in their South African operations. Committee members unanimously supported a recommendation advising the Corporation to prescreen all companies. The ACSR also recommended that the University use the Sullivan Principles as the bare minimum requirement for investing in a company, and that it sell its stock in any company that fails to meet these minimum standards. This term's actions culminated with the unprecedented...
...which was advertising Listerine mouthwash and Dentyne chewing gum, withdrew from Dallas, Charlie's Angels, Soap and Saturday Night Live. A company spokesman said that the change was due to "marketing considerations" and, in the case of Saturday Night Live, to the fact that the company could not prescreen a live program. Hurt then removed Warner-Lambert, the eighth largest television advertiser, with billings of $60 million in 1979, from the boycott list...