Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cheng and Hwang said they ran together because AAA needed their combined experiences to increase the visibility of the organization on the campus...
Activists have directed much of their fire at Madison Avenue. In late 1991, the communications giant GTE ran an ad featuring a man who was "temporarily insane" because he heard strange voices on his non-GTE system. The New York State Lottery game Crazy 8s last year had an ad showing a "typical" customer bragging that he was "crazy, nuts. I'm out of control." Ads have run recently for "psycho" sunglasses and "Skitzocolor" T shirts...
...such victories are sporadic at best. Last spring a Manhattan and New Jersey discount clothier named Daffy's ran an ad showing a straitjacket with the caption, "If you're paying over $100 for a dress shirt, may we suggest a jacket to go with it?" Protesters picketed a store, wrote letters and petitioned the New York City Commission on Human Rights. A Daffy's spokesperson insisted that the ad was humorous and called the protest unfair...
McAlary's own paper was in even worse financial shape than the News. Press tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who bought the Post in 1976, lost about $150 million in a dozen years before caving in. The latest would-be savior was Peter Kalikow, like Zuckerman a real estate lord, who ran down the circulation (from 550,000 to about 438,000), threw his real estate holdings into bankruptcy and exacted a 20% pay cut from his staff before finally putting the paper up for sale. Answering the call was Hoffenberg, whose millions come from "financial services," in this case buying other...
...After that, they both dropped the shoes and ran off," Freier said...