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Already, Boston has seen the removal of one shoe advertisement that shows a dead woman next to a pair of shoes. The caption reads "We killed for these." Similarly, some television stations have been convinced to set up a board that screens advertisements for sexism...
...South African customers. Word of Kodak's withdrawal came one day after a three-week strike ended at a GM plant that is being sold to local managers and on the same day that Hong Kong announced new sanctions. At week's end Canada-based Bata, a major shoe manufacturer, said it would sell its South African operations to foreign investors...
...million Canadians had had their wallets lifted -- credit cards, IDs and all. Revenue Minister Elmer MacKay told the House of Commons last week that on Oct. 30 microfiche records on nearly every 1985 Canadian taxpayer -- documents so reduced that all of them could fit inside a shoe box -- were stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center. It was, said MacKay, the "most grievous blow to confidentiality in the department's history...
...Dixie Democrats: he is such a fan of the military that aides boast there is not a single major weapons system for which he did not vote money during his 14 years as a Congressman. Breaux, a smooth-talking, good-looking Cajun, is a campaigner of the old shoe- leather school. His election to replace retiring Democratic Senator Russell Long came after a 19-month drive during which he sometimes scheduled as many as a dozen events a day. Says the 42-year-old Breaux: "I love campaigning...
...shoe was on the other foot. Republican incumbents, who won by narrow margin in 1980, were seeking re-election in less favorable times. With so many poised so close to the brink it came as no surprise when many of them went over. But collectively, the Democrats led the Republicans nationally by less than half a million votes, taking just over 50 percent of the total vote. The Democrats lost 12 seats with 53 percent of the national vote in 1980; they won eight seats with less than 51 percent of the vote in 1981. In seats...