Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Money-back guarantees have long been used to promote mail-order kitchen knives or lawn trimmers, but now that classic gimmick is helping sell a most unlikely product: prescription drugs. G.D. Searle -- best known for introducing the first birth-control pill and NutraSweet, the widely used sugar substitute -- is offering full refunds to customers who find the company's medications ineffective or experience unpleasant side effects. All a patient has to do is fill out a postcard-size form with information about where the drug was bought and how much it cost, and attach the sales receipt. The patient...
...captain of a Navy salvage vessel in the Pacific is overheard offering to "sell" women crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...
Overall, women constitute roughly 10% of the 2.1 million active-duty members of the armed forces. Women serve on about 50 Navy ships and at most U.S. bases abroad. The captain accused in the report of offering to sell women crew members commanded the noncombat vessel Safeguard, which had 18 women among its six officers and 84 enlisted men. A Navy spokesman claimed that the captain's "distasteful" offer was meant as a joke, but his superiors did not consider it funny. They relieved him of his command and filed other sexual- harassment charges against...
Cory Aquino loses some key Cabinet ministers. -- Costa Rica' s Arias prepares to sell his peace plan in the U. S. -- An ozone accord...
Campus activists have continued to call for further divestment, arguing that the university should also sell its stock in companies that distribute products in South Africa, but have no holdings there, according to The Spectator...