Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Procter & Gamble found that the latest rumors were being spread by Fundamentalist religious groups, mostly in the South. Several pastors had passed on the tales from their pulpits. Leaflets urging Christians to stop buying the company's products were being distributed in front of churches, schools and stores.
Said a Procter & Gamble spokesman: "Your first reaction is to laugh about it, but it has become such a major distraction to our organization that we have decided enough is enough. It's not funny any more." Although its sales have yet to be affected by the rumors, Procter...
From big metropolitan medical centers to the smallest of rural community hospitals and clinics, such horror tales of runaway medical costs are becoming all too common. As medical technology keeps improving and advancing, bringing steady torrents of new and ever more exotic and sophisticated equipment and practices to market, the...
As soon as the film industry invented movie stars, the public caught a case of chronic curiosity about their off-screen lives. Americans idolized the images of actors but still never stopped asking: What are they really like? For years, Hollywood exploited the public curiosity while making no honest effort...
Thus begins an absolutely ripping adventure. Author Stephen Becker, 55, keeps the action fast and the background crammed with details. He meticulously evokes the rhythms of village life, the rituals of a people cut off from the rest of the world. The convergence of Greenwood and General Yang poses a...