Word: sloganeered
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...home to parents explaining, as 16-year-old Swanola James puts it, that "we all aren't worked up." (The principal, she says, quashed the letter for fear of offending N.A.G. parents.) Parent volunteers have been working in the Pontiac schools and trying to counteract the N.A.G. with a slogan that has cropped up this year on bumper stickers in both North and South: LET'S MAKE IT WORK...
Aside from being Governor-not necessarily an advantage for his children when they are in the classroom -Holton is different from most parents in his ebullient optimism. On his office In box is pasted the slogan, TODAY IS OPPORTUNITY DAY. DO SOMETHING, and twelve-year-old Woody is awakened by his father each morning with the call, "It's opportunity time." His wife Jinks is also enthusiastic, and is trying to get more black parents into the schools' P.T.A.s. In the same situation, other parents and other children might not have had the same happy experience. Still, when...
Longstreth made similar strides among black voters, who felt that Rizzo's slogan "Rizzo Means Business" meant that Rizzo would give them the business. Black wards gave Longstreth 70 per cent of their ballots, the highest Republican percentage since 1932. In Philadelphia, race clearly meant more than party...
...Tuesday by putting together a coalition of blacks, poor whites and suburbanites around the slogan "Keep the Big Boys Honest," the same slogan he used in 1969. He based his appeal on his long time opposition to the interests of the Virginia Power Company, the banks and corrupt politicians. (One of his alternate slogans in 1969 went "Henry Howell Don't Owe Nothing to Nobody.") That this sort of consumer populism could succeed may bode very badly for conservatives. Party lines are breaking up on other issues besides race...
...toughest cop in America," former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo often boasted, a thick finger stabbing the air. Now, as the city's Democratic candidate for mayor, Rizzo puts out much the same message. Billboards and taxis all over the city carry his beefy face and the slogan RIZZO MEANS BUSINESS...