Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand of the radicals is that the government create by next year 500,000 new jobs for educated unemployed Indians. In support of the demand, one delegate reminded party members that while the party campaigned on the slogan Garibi hatao (erase poverty), there remain considerable numbers of Indians who are undernourished, unable to afford medical treatment, and who do not have homes. Mrs. Gandhi agreed, but remarked that banishing poverty was "not a thing for which one can specify a definite date." She also called for an India free of communal hostilities, economic exploitation and backwardness. These words have been...
From the first, Breuer showed an original spirit; he slept on top of a bathtub in an apartment he shared with two women. He quickly questioned the Bauhaus slogan of "Art and Technology-a new Unity." It implies, he said, that "art is wonderful, technology is wonderful, so the two together must be twice as wonderful. That is not so." As for the famous tag-"form follows function"-Breuer wryly added: "Not always." What he aimed at was "something simpler, more elemental, more generous and more human than a machine...
Hicks stuck to her re-election slogan--performance counts"--throughout the race. One supporter proclaimed proudly on election night that Hicks had a 100 per cent attendance record in Congress. "The people in the 9th District can feel safe; they know they're represented," she said...
...fairly be blamed on Trudeau, who had somehow managed to turn voters off in the course of an eight-week campaign of seemingly calculated indifference. He picked as his theme "the integrity of Canada," a precise but passionless way of declaring his opposition to Quebec separatism, and as his slogan "the land is strong," which is practically meaningless. He could not, it seemed, communicate any sense of concern over Canada's appallingly high unemployment rate of 7.1 %. As a Cabinet colleague cynically put it, Trudeau was simply unable to "bleed a little" for the electorate. At the same time...
Williams attacked the science center as a bastion of the scientific technology which seeks to control and repress "basic human social and political rights." The slogan: Polaroid + ID equals Fascism was pinted on the walls of the center...