Word: propell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Koppel remains hot enough and cool enough to propel it. -By William A. Henry...
Going into The Game, Ernst is eleventh among Harvard's all-time single-season pushing leaders with 648 yards. A 105-yard performance on Saturday would propel him into fourth place. Not bad for a player who gained only 158 yards in his first four games...
When Coca-Cola began selling wine in 1977, the industry expected its consumer-marketing savvy to propel its brands to the top. Beginning with the purchase of Taylor Wine in New York State, it created a division called the Wine Spectrum and then added the West Coast's Sterling Vineyards and Monterey Vineyard to its basket of wines. Coca-Cola shook up the industry with an advertising campaign boasting that its Taylor California Cellars was preferred to competing brands, which it identified by name. Sales grew smartly, up 17% last year...
...unique problems. Insiders explain that its founder, while savvy and brash, was undisciplined. Says one: "Adam was always supremely confident. For him to desire something was quite enough, and the fact that it didn't exist didn't matter." Critics say his impulsive demands were enough to propel the company for the first year, but he lacked the management experience to run a larger company in a highly competitive field...
CHRISTINE CRAFT WAS a popular news anchor in 1981, for Kansas City television station KMBC-TV. In eight months, Craft had helped propel KMBC's news ratings from second to first in the nation's 27th largest market. There was a problem: the station did not think she was pretty nor deferential enough to men. Craft found herself out of a job, and Metromedia, Inc., which then owned KMBC, later found itself in court...