Word: sloganeered
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...Gandhi has also given top priority to family planning since coming into national leadership in 1966. Had earlier Indian leaders given the program greater emphasis, India's population would not have grown disastrously from 344 million in 1947 to 550 million today. Nonetheless, the slogan "Only two children" has seeped into the Indian consciousness, and the government estimates that there are 15 million fewer babies today than there would have been had family planning not been promoted during the past decade...
Carmines' contemporary maid of Manhattan needs no Dauphin to betray her; church, state and even some of her friends vie for that role. She lives in the East Village with Ira the Junkie (Ira Siff) and Tracy (Tracy Moore), a slogan-shouting nobody. The three hail the blessings of unlicensed polyandry by singing "Now we understand the Trinity . . ." Lumbering home one night, Joan (Lee Guilliatt) meets a miniskirted doll (Essie Borden) who is-what else? -the Virgin Mary enjoying a one-day pass from Camp Paradise. The encounter makes a revolutionary of Joan, who goes to her preordained...
...None is fun." That is the slogan of the National Organization for Non-Parents (NON), a new association formed to promote "childfree" marriage and make non-parenthood "not just a word but an option." The nonparents' group is still small-only 400-but it hopes to grow. All of the members, even the parents among them, are committed to childlessness as a way of creating "social space." That means "a combination of time, money and energy" that can be used to conserve planetary resources, beat the high cost of living and free husbands and wives for political activism...
Europe's third biggest beer, whisky and wine company, London-based Watney Mann, has grown rapidly with the lift of a catchy slogan: "We want Watney's." Nobody takes that slogan more to heart than Maxwell Joseph, a former army lance corporal who is one of Britain's richest entrepreneurs. Joseph is chairman of Grand Metropolitan Hotels, and he wants to buy Watney's so badly he can taste it. He has made two takeover bids for the company, and the latest, due to expire this week, is worth $ 1 billion of his company...
...though he realized the important position that a university press holds in an academic community such as Harvard, must have thought that the operations of the Harvard Press were taking the bankruptcy slogan of the unofficial motto far too seriously. He did not want to continue losing inordinate amounts of money and quickly moved to take action against the deficit operations before they choked the Press in its own debt...