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This philosophy found its most influential practitioner in Jack Welch at General Electric, who popularized the shareholder value movement by focusing corporate strategy on stock price maximization rather than stakeholder balance.

Doda was credited with widely popularizing topless dancing, with her dazzling onstage persona, and gained worldwide fame through her act in the 1960s and ’70s.

But in Nixon’s wake, partisan media activists like former Fox News executive Roger Ailes and radio host Rush Limbaugh continued to popularize the idea of “liberal media bias” within the conservative movement.

The concept seems to date back to the 1830s, when it was reportedly popularized by British minister John Nelson Darby.

It was a punishment imported from Europe and popularized by the Sons of Liberty in the late 1760s, Colonial activists who resisted British rule.