Word: wacker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stubbornly resistant to change; they are unlikely to be the first to try new types of products. "I would take a new tartar- control toothpaste into Des Moines or the Quad Cities because it wouldn't require people to change their behavior by brushing their teeth more," theorizes Watts Wacker, senior vice president of the survey-research firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. "But I wouldn't take a tartar-control mouthwash there, because that requires change in usage patterns." Iowans are even contrariant enough to believe still in the superiority of American automobiles: foreign-car sales are only half...
...Wacker agreed that the cold is often spread by students who bring from home local strains of the virus. While they may have aquired particular immunity to these regional forms of the cold, students from other areas have not, he said...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, Director of Harvard University Health Services (UHS), said that the present cold epidemic is "not unusual; we get it every fall." Still, Wacker noted that the cold has struck Harvard students about two weeks earlier than it usually does...
Asked for any final comments, Wacker said, "Ihope I don't get [the cold]--but I usually...
...There are many more who are sick, who simply take their exams, and we encourage all students who come to us to take their exams if at all possible," Wacker said...