Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggesting the heavenly bolt that apparently caused the fire in York Minster [WORLD, July 23] was a manifestation of God's displeasure over the installation of liberal Bishop David Jenkins. But why would God cause such destructive retribution on a temple of worship? Should not the heaven-sent brand have struck Jenkins' own house, thus leaving no doubt as to God's intent? Perhaps God was having...
While fans pouring into Harvard Stadium next week will see some of the world's best soccer, they may be surprised to see it played in a style quite unlike the brand played in the United States...
...While touring an Army depot in Corpus Christi, Texas, investigators found 63 cartons from the Kingsville Naval Air Station labeled 200 LBS. OF ELECTRONIC SCRAP. Inside the cartons were 300 brand-new electronic circuit boards still in the manufacturer's packaging. As scrap each circuit assembly would bring a few dollars, but investigators found that the Navy is buying them...
...insult-artist school of broadcasting traces its roots to Joe Pyne, an ex-Marine who liked to tell his guest victims to "go gargle with razor blades." He perfected his brand of radio ridicule in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, then carried it to syndicated television later in the decade, when hippies and antiwar protesters offered him a steady flow of irresistible targets. A generation of Pyne clones were soon imitating his snarl at other stations around the country, and for a time the style flourished. But Pyne died in 1970, and the popularity of his percussive style declined...
...drug, marketed by Burroughs Wellcome Co., under the brand name Zovirax, has been available in ointment form since 1982. "This is not a cure," emphasizes Virologist Stephen Straus, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who directed one of the studies. But, he notes, "nothing in the past has been able to suppress recurring herpes...