Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home town of Denver over the weekend, Gorsuch remained poised in the face of these new challenges. She reiterated her pledge to go to jail if necessary in resisting Congress's call for documents, though over the weekend intense negotiations were going on to end the confrontation. Stanley Brand, the lawyer representing the House in the dispute, warned that Gorsuch is on much shakier ground now. "We're not going to take some peekaboo deal," he said. How much more heat is the Ice Queen prepared to take? Said she, with a sweet smile: "Lots...
Almost eight years after imposing its fierce brand of Communist rule over all of Viet Nam, Hanoi has a new claim to notoriety. "It seemed to me the worst country to live in," commented Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, as tie unveiled the State Department's annual human rights survey last week...
...Guide, the nation's largest weekly (circ. 17.5 million), has long been known as something of a cheerleader for the industry it covers. For the past few years, however, TV Guide's editors have been trying to introduce a brand of muckraking to their pages. Last May the magazine exposed what CBS News later acknowledged were journalistic violations in a network documentary, aired in January 1982, that assailed the Viet Nam War conduct of General William Westmoreland. Last week, however, TV Guide found itself fending off charges of inaccuracy and unfairness, made by CBS, among others, against...
...close to eight thousand Jews, shipped away to certain death in the Eastern European concentration camps. But Barbie's most infamous achievement was the 1943 arrest, torture and murder of the daring underground guerilla a leader, Jean Moulin. That outrage above all others came to symbolize the Nazi brand of terror, as Moulin emerged from his last harrowing session with Barbie, an eyewitness recalled that "he had been beaten terribly, he was all bruises, a leg was sort of trailing behind him. He had been very neatly destroyed...
...Tucson, Carleton Admissions Director Dick Steele discovered that lanky Eric Schocket was a cross-country runner. Said Steele: "We have a brand-new, $250,000 all-weather track and a 450-acre arboretum that is laced with running and cross-country-skiing tracks." Eric was impressed but said he wanted to become an engineer. Steele suggested that he think about attending a small liberal arts school that also had a strong engineering program and mentioned Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Eric was even more impressed. Said he later: "That's the first time I've heard a college...