Word: quash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thank you for calling Procter & Gamble concerning the malicious and completely false stories about our company's trademark," begins the recording. That toll-free message at (800) 354-0508 is one of the ways in which Procter & Gamble has tried to quash a persistent whisper campaign alleging that its man-in-the-moon logo is satanic and that the company is somehow involved in devil worship. Last week the giant Cincinnati manufacturer (1984 sales: $12.9 billion) decided that the 103-year-old logo has become more of a headache than it is worth. Frustrated by an inexplicable rebirth...
...speak to Gelb again. The reason was a report by Gelb in the Feb. 13 edition of the Times that described U.S. contingency plans for placing nuclear weapons in foreign countries and Puerto Rico. Before it was published, Secretary of State George Shultz asked the paper to quash the story. Said Chain: "Disclosure of this type of information contributes little to the public's understanding and serves only to aid our potential adversary." The Times replied that everything in Gelb's story had already been reported in the foreign press. Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal said the development would not affect...
...course, Reagan's real desire is to quash the Nicaraguan regime by diplomatic and subversive means. But with aid to the contra guerrilla forces cut off by Congress, and the newly elected Nicaraguan government assured of popular support for the near future, the likelihood of an overthrow seems low indeed. Rather than muscling or hustling the Sandinistas, the Reagan Administration might accomplish something tangible by dealing with the present situation, instead of reacting to imagined situations...
...bring to account the generals who ran the country for nearly eight years. But his efforts to prosecute military men for the human rights abuses that led to the deaths of at least 10,000 Argentines has led to growing dissension within the army. Last week Alfonsin moved to quash the opposition to his civilian government by ousting four top generals...
...TOOK THE WOMEN'S movement 20 years to quash the turn-of-the-century stereotype of the suffragette as a humorless shrew. Foolish efforts to raise the status of women by fig-leaFing the media will ressurect this long-dead stereotype. Feminism fought a long battle to be taken seriously; feminists like MacKinnon and Dworkin are only inviting the kind of derision they want to avoid...