Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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council, jogs in a NO FREEDOM, NO FOOTBALL T shirt, the familiar slogan of players on the picket line eight years ago. Less a strike than a student demonstration, that action amounted to marching around the quadrangle a while and then going back to class. The owners are still grinning. As for drugs, the owners favor urinalysis of the sort routine to boxers and Olympians. The players' association calls such tests dehumanizing. Only Detroit Lions Tackle Doug English has been heard to say out loud: "When you think about it, almost all of football is dehumanizing." If the players...
...campaign for "free TV." At the National Cable Television Association convention in Las Vegas in May, Turner reminded cable-system owners of the Johnny-come-lately quality of his opposition with placards, buttons and a giant 3-D billboard of himself playing the guitar, all inscribed with a slogan paraphrased from a country music song title: I WAS CABLE WHEN CABLE WASN'T COOL...
...toting a dry-cleaning bag in one hand as he picked up some Coldwell, Banker real estate brochures with the other. Said he: "I already have Allstate insurance. Now my fiancée and I are looking for a house." Sears seems determined to live up to its old slogan: "Sears has everything...
...Reagan's "zero-option" proposal, to eliminate all intermediate-range nuclear missiles from NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Reagan's slogan here is no missiles on either side-no Soviet SS-20s, no American Pershing Us [or ground-launched cruise missiles]. We could do the same thing. Tomorrow we could come out with our own program for deploying Soviet missiles near the U.S., say in the north somewhere, and then offer not to go ahead with that deployment if the U.S. would give up the MX [America's still undeployed ICBM]. That is fine as propaganda, perhaps...
...economic never-never land, Nos. 2 and 3 and on down the line were gearing up for just what we've always said American society thrived on-competition. We thought they could never catch up, but they tried harder, and here we are-to paraphrase an old American slogan, a Sony in every house and two Toyotas in every garage...