Word: street
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quality of life in Area 4 has been declining this year: through June, drug arrests were up 81percent, and reported street robberies doubled...
Coverage of the original impertinent comments eclipsed a summer filled with positive news for the department's crime-fighting efforts. Rape is down 36 percent so far this year. There are fewer robberies, fewer assaults, and no murders. Street robberies, long a thorn in the side of patrol officers, were down 16 percent through June...
...They would have had a Harvard recruiter standing on the street shouting out, 'Are you a leader? Do you want to go to Harvard?'" Green says...
Even after marketing Rogaine for the past decade, Pharmacia & Upjohn isn?t posting the profits it should be. According to Monday?s Wall Street Journal, income from Rogaine is slumping behind that of Merck?s Propecia - the market?s other, more powerful anti-baldness drug. It seems that in the course of wooing balding men, Pharmacia & Upjohn has tripped over its own advertising claims: The Rogaine web site boasts that the product is ?medically proven to regrow hair,? while following pages back away from such strong language, focusing instead on various caveats to be kept in mind by prospective users...
...Wall Street Journal reports, the makers of Rogaine are putting a new, happy face on their product, pitching it as a preventive measure to men who simply want to hang on to the hair they?ve got. ?Rogaine? trumpet the latest ads, ?Stronger than heredity.? The marketing mavens at Pharmacia & Upjohn may be onto an elemental truth: Men who are worried about losing their hair are far more obsessive about their scalps than men who have actually stared into the shiny face of baldness. And in the ongoing tradition of avoidance, this new marketing tack allows men who harbor dark...