Word: purina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BELLY Two meals a day of Purina Pro Plan, plus Milk Bones as a snack...
Robin Williams wouldn't do it for McDonald's. KEVIN COSTNER wouldn't do it for Ralston Purina. But PIERCE BROSNAN has to do it for BMW, Visa, Smirnoff, Heineken, Omega watches, L'Oreal cosmetics and Ericcson cellular phones. The "it" is shilling for products with promotional tie-ins to the new James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, which MGM/UA will release Dec. 19. The current 007, wanting more control over his image, is likely to renegotiate a tougher deal with the studio for the next Bond installment. Most A-list actors refuse to do commercials for product...
...always grin with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs has become an artist--a simian Grandpa Moses--and sales of his paintings are to fund the Cheeta Project, a non-profit foundation that will aid other chimps and keep Jiggs on his daily diet of fruit, Purina Monkey Chow and the occasional Oreo as a treat. Tarzan's tree house was never like this...
...from just about anyone during the campaign, Clinton banned the corporate contributions, interest-free loans and in-kind donations that normally underwrite such a celebration. Continental Airlines won't provide free seats to celebrities. General Motors will not provide 300 cars, free of charge, for the parade, and Ralston Purina will not hay and water the hundreds of horses that usually turn the Mall into an urban Ponderosa for a few days. "They are doing the Caesar's wife Inaugural," said insurance lobbyist Michael Lewan, a Democrat...
Whitacre brought that high intensity to ADM, where he arrived in 1989 after jobs as a researcher at Ralston Purina and a manager at Degussa, a German-owned chemical firm. He organized and ran ADM's fast-growing biochemical-products division. Under Whitacre's supervision the company began making the feed additive lysine in 1991; it now controls half the worldwide market. That made Whitacre a favorite of ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas and a likely successor to company president James Randall, 71. "He was very proud and excited about his work at ADM," says Combs, who kept in touch with...