Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among political moderates. The N.N.P. was hastily cobbled together from three rival Grenadian parties only last August. During the low-key, three-month campaign, Blaize and his supporters emphasized the themes of economic development and safeguards against the abuse of power, while Gairy's G.U.L.P. ran under the slogan "Americans must stay forever." New Jewel loyalists tried to whip up sentiment over alleged CIA interference in the elections, and staged rallies honoring their murdered leader...
...reassure its customers, the long-ailing International Harvester launched an ad campaign early this year that featured this slogan: "The commitment is forever." But last week Harvester's shaky financial condition forced it to break that promise. The Chicago-based company decided to sell its agricultural division for $430 million to Houston's Tenneco, an energy conglomerate. This means that Harvester, the descendant of a company founded by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the mechanical reaper, will abandon its original line of business. The divestiture will let Harvester concentrate on its profitable truck-building operation. Tenneco will merge...
Last week she scored again. Before a poster of the traditional Thanksgiving bird that carried the slogan DON'T BE A TURKEY. PAY YOUR CHILD SUPPORT, Allred and Los Angeles District Attorney Robert Philibosian announced the encouraging first results produced by her controversial campaign to persuade newspapers to publish the names of delinquent parents. After papers publicized 254 of the "deadbeat dads," 30 of them were located. Says Allred: "To paraphrase Gloria Steinem, 'You have to perform an outrageous act or rebellion every...
...Indira is India, India is Indira." That once ubiquitous slogan seemed even truer in death than in life. No less shocking than the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two Sikh bodyguards was the brutality that erupted across India in its wake. Frenzied mobs of young Hindu thugs, thirsting for revenge, burned Sikh-owned stores to the ground, dragged Sikhs out of their homes, cars and trains, then clubbed them to death or set them aflame before raging off in search of other victims. The death toll approached 2,000, and in Delhi, where more than 550 died, four...
...seek the truth from the facts," is a popular slogan in China now, explains Ching Chang Hsiao, a special reporter with the Wen Hui Daily in Shanghai and currently a Nieman fellow studying American history and foreign policy. "During the last ten to 20 years we emphasized the truth, but somehow the truth is not the facts, it's produced from people's minds," he says, referring to the Cultural Revolution. "Now we must pursue the truth; we must do everything according to the objective will...