Word: sell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure on the two activists, saying that he only encouraged them to pursue different means. "If that's pressure, making someone think reasonably, then I'm guilty," Carter said. Surely he is not guilty of making students think reasonably; the cancellation of the march and Ray's complete sell-out were perhaps the most unreasonable actions possible by these so-called "activists...
...jewelry, underwear--all commercial products geared towards a women's audience are represented in the glossy 98-page magazine. And they portray an image of women at once career-oriented and feminine, with flawless bodies and immaculate grooming to reinforce the "correct" female look upon which companies rely to sell products to women...
...Hanes targeted the new Ms. magazine to sell the Lindsay ad. That's right, the mouthpiece of the movement, Gloria Steinem's brainchild, now sells silky pantyhose and sexual stereotypes along with consciousness-raising and feminist politics...
...citizens took to calling him the "Mineral Secretary" or the "Genjuice," but now they may want to tag Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev with a more affectionate nickname -- say, "Comrade Cognac." Last week the Soviet Council of Ministers announced that grocery stores will once again be allowed to sell beer, wine and cognac -- but not vodka. The decree watered down Gorbachev's antialcohol policies of 1985, which produced long lines at state shops and a flood of black-market booze. Despite the softened stance on liquor sales, the Soviet leadership still hopes to cut alcohol consumption with a stepped...
Some of these men are the missing Black fathers who have had kids with three different mothers, the criminals who sell drugs and shoot each other in alleys, the high-school dropouts who work anonymous jobs and live in anonymous sections of the cities. Some of them are the success stories unnecessarily pointed to by well-meaning white liberals as "proof" that some Blacks can become useful members of society. In reality, they are individual men who have done nothing more than follow the different motivating factors that life has presented them...