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- <text id=91TT1265>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: Business Notes:Awards
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- AWARDS
- Did GM Add to Its Ads?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> You would think that receiving an award from the Commerce
- Department would be honor enough for any corporation. According
- to the Texas attorney general's office, you would be wrong. Last
- October General Motors' Cadillac division won the government's
- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the right to mention
- the medal in its advertising--a right GM exercised. The
- campaign had immediate results: lawyers for Texas complained
- that ads citing the award violated the state's Deceptive Trade
- Practices Act. Newspaper spreads boasted that "167,000
- applicants" had vied for the Baldrige when in fact only 97 had
- applied, and that the Commerce Department had praised Cadillac's
- engine, an assertion questioned by Commerce itself. GM also
- caught flak for several overly flattering paraphrases of a
- government handout accompanying the award. The 167,000
- applicants are now absent from GM's ads, but the corporation
- stands by everything else and is meeting with the state's
- attorneys to resolve the dispute.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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