Word: ticker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Goodyear blimp, the Times Square news ticker and baseball scoreboards will all be flashing the same message next week: the label has arrived. Television ads will be urging people to "check it out." In a campaign designed to echo through every supermarket, the U.S. government is touting the new, improved nutrition labels that as of May 8 must appear on most food products...
...what is called the "War Against Women" -- a war that is of course atrocious because women are . . . helpless? The War Against Men, on the other hand, is what men have coming to them, and high time. When women read about male bashing, the words give me a break ticker-tape across their foreheads...
...cinemetography is good, direction OK. The closing scenes (namely McKellen's acting) make me cry. I shiver as the cold numbers (the "Butcher's Bill"), like ticker tape, flash periodically at the bottom of the screen. Elton John's "The Last Song" haunts me. Reagan's inglorious ascent parallels perfectly the disease's inaugural progress. Gays are bestowed some sympathetic representation. Best line: "I'm not afraid of dying anymore. I'm afraid for the people who live...
...most improved autos in the latest J.D. Power survey carried U.S. nameplates. (Three U.S. brands made the Power list of the 10 highest-rated cars in terms of owner satisfaction, up from one model when the survey began in 1986.) Moreover, with the strong yen triggering ticker shock in showrooms that sell Japanese makes, consumers are finding that buying American makes practical as well as patriotic sense...
...proposal will increase the price of Cambridge parking stickers to $8 for the first sticker of the household. A ticker for a second car will cost $12, and any additional stickers would cost...