Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sung by a chorus of wailing voices against a background of driving rhythm and blues music. It is beamed only over black radio stations to black audiences. P. Lorillard, the manufacturer of Kent, is one of a growing number of U.S. companies that are making a special effort to woo Negro consumers, who spend an estimated $30 billion a year. In particular, tobacco companies, department stores and cosmetics makers have all found the soul sell an effective conduit to Negro buyers. Because of the development of a separate black identity and its unique idiom, companies are turning to black advertising...
...University's graduate business program for Negroes. At school he helped to start a small investment company, was in the top 10% of his class, and won the award for the best dissertation. Adams is aware that quite a few recruiters are going out of their way to woo Negroes, but he disdains sinecures. "I want to join a company that is going to get its investment out of me -not just fulfill its commitment to the Equal Opportunity Act." Having rejected many other offers, he will return to Del Monte as a financial analyst...
Calkins did his part to woo the business community. He put a new cover on the PACE report's vocational-education plan and presented it in the interest of "improving industry-school communication...
Calkins did his part to woo the business community. He put a new cover on the PACE report's vocational-education plan and presented it in the interest of "improving industry-school communications...
Nixon wisely chose to begin his tour in Brussels, headquarters of NATO and the Common Market, hence the symbolic capital of European unity. To start in London would have given the impression that the President favors the British; to start in Paris, that he is trying too hard to woo De Gaulle...