Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, to use Ec 10 jargon, salaries, benefits and wholesale prices bear no relation to traditional market factors. For example, subsidized gasoline is sold to the public at seven or eight cents a liter when it really should cost between 40 and 50 cents...
...newly inaugurated president Carlos Menem, riding a wave of public approval, has succeeded in halting the daily price hikes and the accompanying widespread uncertainty about how the average family will pay for its next meal...
...thanks to an emergency plan that included a wage and price freeze and massive increases in public utility tariffs, inflation has fallen steadily: to 33 percent in August, 10 percent this month. Economists are even predicting negative inflation for next month...
Unfortunately, Alfonsin's reputation, battered by the haunting spectre of hyperinflation, probably won't. While Menem is now enjoying widespread public adulation, Alfonsin has become a virtual pariah in the Argentine political scene, an unfortunate occurrence that detracts from his substantial achievements and his profound commitment to restoring democracy to the country...
...public is never wrong," proclaimed film pioneer Adolph Zukor, and on such wisdom Hollywood was built. Zukor's maxim is as sound today as it was when Rodeo Drive was just a furrow in a field, but now it is being challenged by what may be the most offensive idea since Smell-O-Vision: commercials in movie theaters and on videocassettes...