Word: brandings
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...brand of school spirit far removed from pep rallies and cheerleading has spread throughout American campuses college pinup calendars. Typically featuring photographs of the school's best-looking undergraduate men or women, the calendars have appeared at colleges from Connecticut to California and are marketed nationwide...
...aircraft carrier or a wood interdental stimulator (tooth-pick). Twenty-four pages are required to list the specs for T shirts, 15 pages for chewing gum, and 17 for Worcestershire sauce. One result: the Pentagon pays $10 a case for Worcestershire sauce, vs. $8 for a commercial brand...
Reagan's philosophies seemed destined to provoke a new brand of despair among Washington regulars. With telling prescience. Garry Trudeau last year penned several sketches of a distraught EPA employee whose premonitions of policy reversals sent him scurrying to the narrow ledge outside his office window. The scene could have transpired equally well at any number of federal agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Department of Education...
Mondale has genuine wit, but he is not without his liabilities. He is closely associated with the unpopular presidency of Jimmy Carter. His brand of liberalism is in eclipse, so much of the intellectual force of his campaign will have to come from his "new ideas." Most important, the scrutiny given the front runner will magnify and occasionally distort his campaign. Mondale is the man to beat: any victories will be viewed as unremarkable, any losses considered big upsets, and any stumbles treated as potentially fatal...
...appointed 88 other judges to life tenure on district and circuit courts-the federal trial and appeals bench. They, and other nominations to come, assure Reagan a potent legal legacy that some judiciary watchers find thrilling, others chilling. As a group, his choices very much wear the Reagan brand: they are mostly white, male and conservatively Republican. At the same time, as even some liberals admit, they are solidly competent...