Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brand President Reagan a failure in his attempts to achieve arms control is ridiculous. The simple fact is that as long as the Soviets perceive themselves as having a decisive military advantage they will never negotiate an equitable agreement...
Critics like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth catalogues, object to metric for the very reason that most scholars favor it: the ease of converting one unit to another-say, kilometers to meters-by simply multiplying or dividing by tens. Says Brand: "You can't visualize a tenth very well, but you can imagine a quarter or a half of something." Adds Seaver Leslie, founder of Americans for Customary Weight and Measure: "The metric system is imposed rationality...
...costumes are those of punks and new romantics gone off to the circus and while some seem inspired by the recent new wave film Starstruck, others are brand new and very clever. One cast member, dancer Glenda Medeiros, wears knee-length spandex pants. Spray-painted up one inner thigh and around and down the other is the message. "There is nothing." As she rolls across the floor, spreading her legs with each tumble, the audience sees the words over and over again...
...effectively undermined Sartawi's already slim chances of survival last February when he abruptly removed the doctor from the speaker's list at the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers and then ejected him from the session entirely. Arafat made it clear to every delegate present that Sartawi's brand of diplomatic realism would never be welcome. The charter ideology of the PLO, after all, remains committed to the annihilation of the Jewish nation...
...pushing past Chevron into seventh place among the major refiners. Some of Arco's gains have come at the expense of independent dealers who depend on the majors for their gasoline. An owner of independent gas stations in Massachusetts claims that price competition from Arco and British Petroleum (brand name: BP) has forced him to sell gas below cost. Even at that, he says, his retail price of $1.07 per gal. is still 4? above the price charged by nearby Arco stations. He moans: "We're losing $100,000 a month, and the worst thing is that...