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James J. Ahearn, senior manager of environmental affairs at the Polaroid Corporation, cited the practice of "green marketing." Using this technique, firms tout products as environmentally safe that are of questionable help in preventing pollution...
...little extra for a product if they can be persuaded that it will ease the garbage glut. But as manufacturers rush to hype the healthy-planet virtues of their products, some seem to be badly overdoing it. Mobil officials said last week that the company will no longer tout its Hefty trash bags as "degradable" because of "mounting confusion" over just what the label means. Mobil was taking a hint. The attorneys general of California, New York, Texas and five other states have launched a joint investigation to determine whether claims like Mobil's constitute deceptive advertising...
Membership is not defined as a function of mass attendance as McLaughlin erroneously asserts. Furthermore, the leadership does not tout the large number of Catholic undergrads to "turn the assets of the group toward their own personal agendas." If someone respnds to the CSA's outreach, as the author does, by choosing not to help, how can his apathy or neglect be blamed on those who have sacrificed so much of their time for others...
...ideas that at first glance seemed both impossible and unnecessary. The opulent Palais Garnier, the Paris Opera's famed Second Empire quarters, was one of the world's most beautiful opera houses. The chosen site, a disused railroad station in then unfashionable eastern Paris, was deemed Nowhere by le Tout-Paris. And the cost of some $400 million, just about everybody said, could be better spent elsewhere...
There is a serious lack of performance space at the University for student groups Harvard loves to tout the diversity of its student body, and musically and theatrically incluined undergraduates certainly figure highly in that diversity. But the University has not backed up its glowing statements with adequate performance space...