It is also a safe bet that the drug companies would quickly and greedily pounce on the opportunity to mount a marketing blitz targeted to the bereaved and a campaign to "teach" physicians how to treat mourning with a magic pill.
While the airwaves mount a propaganda blitz for Communist values, people are each day moving more in the other direction: wearing more cosmetics and shorter skirts, studying more English, trying ever more frantically to go to the West -and, perhaps most basic of all, reverting to pre-Communist era ways of speaking and writing the Chinese language.
No longer able to mount a sustained media blitz in a small state like New Hampshire or South Carolina with the national press corps as an audience in residence, candidates are being forced to spread their advertising money so thin that the campaign may not yet be registering with voters in some of the big states holding primaries on Super Tuesday, March 7.
Then, Mr. Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, got busy, mounting a lobbying blitz that helps explain why a bipartisan Senate deal on background checks remains elusive.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, and other executives also mounted a media blitz to explain what the company did and did not know about the efforts.
Corporate America had mounted a media blitz in the last two months, calling on Congress to both avert the potentially devastating fiscal cliff and replace it with a reasonable long-term plan to get the federal deficit under control.
Come New Year's Eve, Kraft Foods, which merged with Nabisco in 2000, will mount an all-out blitz to depict Ritz as playful and lively.
Under growing pressure, the companies are mounting a public relations blitz.
The Russian command has also adopted another tactic from NATO's Kosovo war, mounting a public-relations blitz to rally popular opinion.
In response to complaints from Streett and other military leaders, in January 1943 Florida's Department of Health mounted a statewide media blitz encouraging testing and treatment for VD.
And the police force has vastly expanded in the past three years, mounting a New York-style blitz on crime – no small feat in a megacity, much less the biggest sprawl in the western hemisphere.
