Word: brandings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...although responsible for major revisions, are Mike Reiss '81 and Al Jean '81. No strangers to humor, these two, Reiss served as the Harvard Lampoon's president, and Al Jean was his Ibis, or second-in-command. Anyone who remembers Reiss's Ivy Oration in '81 will recognize the brand of rapid-fire humor that makes this spoof spunky, and Jean's specialty of "over-kill" humor fits perfectly into a film that can show Mission Control deciding that the crew are "goners," and flash to a shot of the cockpit, where the Grim Reaper stands behind the pilot...
...International Data Corp., a research company. But instead of shopping around for a particular machine made by Atari or Apple, canny consumers are first looking for the programs that will perform the specific tasks they most want done, such as letter writing or financial planning. Then buyers select the brand of computer that can operate that software. This year software sales for personal computers are expected to reach $590 million, an 82% rise over the past two years. By 1986 sales could reach $2.2 billion...
Business in a real sense. Astronaut Vance Brand, 51, had barely brought down the shuttle in a textbook landing-"painting the numbers on the runway," as pilots say-when other NASA hands began thinking of collecting the fees for Columbia's services. During the five-day mission, the shuttle had carried aloft two commercial communications satellites, one of them American, the other Canadian. NASA will earn more than $18 million for this orbital freight hauling, hardly enough to cover Columbia' s fuel bill, but a first small step in turning the shuttle into a self-supporting enterprise...
...respect and less and less to pity. Washington's is not the only monument. Last week in downtown Chicago a commemorative fountain was dedicated, and in Vermont, Interstate 89 last month became Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Highway. On the courthouse lawn in Glasgow, Ky. (pop. 13,000), the brand new black granite marker is still awaiting the names of Barren County's two dozen Viet Nam dead...
...rockets sank into the sea. This time, after separating from their mother ship, they drifted gently to earth under their large parachutes and stayed afloat for later recovery. As the shuttle cruised 184 miles above the earth, President Reagan sent up his greetings. Commented Columbia's commander, Vance Brand, 51, a veteran of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz linkup: "It's a beautiful world that we're over." Replied Reagan: "We're trying to figure out how to keep the world as beautiful as it is you looking at it from up there...