Scenario 4-1 A Group Called Adbusters Has a Website Containing Many Pages

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Scenario 4-1
A group called Adbusters has a website containing many pages that address issues of consumption and culture, media practices, and corporate responsibilities.For example, "The momentum has clearly accelerated.By some measures humans have used more physical resources since World War II than in all of history before it.It's now taking a toll beyond anything we could ever have imagined.What does it mean when one­sixth of the world's population consumes without any real restraint?"
Throughout the website, there are many references to advertising's role in creating and maintaining this situation.Not surprisingly, virtually all of the references to the practice of advertising are negative.
HYPERLINK http://www.adbusters.org/home/) (http://www.adbusters.org/home/)
-(Scenario 4-3) The FTC investigates the claim of "20 percent more casting distance" when using the Lightning Rod. Castaway Sports admits that it has no actual data to support the claim but believes it to be true.However, the FTC rules that Castaway Sports should stop airing the ads, and in response the Lightning Rod advertisement was removed.This is an example of a(n) :

• A)dissolution.
• B)cease-and-desist order.
• C)consent order.
• D)appropriation.

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