Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beatty expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of activism around these problems from the Democratic Party and asked, "Do we belong to a party that sweeps this stuff under...
Perhaps the biggest hurdle to overcome in Europe is retailer reluctance. In the past, licensed goods from fellow European companies were often cheap promotional giveaways, so many retailers view licensed products as a form of advertising that doesn't belong on their shelves. That puts the onus on marketers to convince retailers that most of today's licensed products are well-made goods associated with top brands. It's a slow slog. But, says David Isaacs, Equity Management's international director, "it can be done...
...avoid offending local sensibilities by going the franchise route. "It helps us to have someone who understands the local culture," she says. So far, Ann Summers' Dublin store is the only one that has drawn opposition. Downtown merchants--saying a sex shop, no matter how posh, doesn't belong on a main shopping avenue--tried to get it moved to a side street. But the opposing retailers could not find any legal reason to keep the shop off O'Connell Street, and the company turned a deaf ear to their appeals to leave...
...dinosaur bones have not yet been fully analyzed, but they appear to belong to early prosauropods, small herbivores that are most likely the ancestors of the giant Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus). Says Flynn of the little beasts: "I like to think of them being somewhat like kangaroos. They were similar in size, and while they didn't hop, they probably walked about on four legs and stood up on two legs to feed." Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot-beaked reptiles). The rest are cynodonts, cold-blooded, reptile-like animals--the ancestors of modern mammals...
...attorney (Gina Gershon) softly, crisply tells the lords of 60 Minutes that they must submit to a higher authority--Mammon. The byline is nothing compared to the bottom line. It's a dark reality that Mike Wallace (a deft impersonation by Christopher Plummer) has to juggle. Does his loyalty belong to his current CBS bosses or to the ghost of Edward R. Murrow...