Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baileys' success has spawned an industry of competing Irish cream liqueurs, including Waterford Cream, Carolans (a mix of honey, cream and whisky) and Royal Tara (an orange-flavored cream). There are also a host of Baileys rip-offs bearing similar-sounding brand names. At last count there were at least 50 copies of Irish cream being served worldwide...
...spectators would do well to appreciate the specimens in One Horse Show, as much for their genuine bellyachin' humor as for the lost world they recreate. Dan Rice, the homespun clown who dressed up in a flag suit and ultimately inspired the cartoon image of Uncle Sam, peddled a brand of entertainment which--as the show gradually reveals--was virtually extinct by the time of Appomattox. In his heyday--set forth in the show's early vignettes--Rice would cavort while telling his audiences morality stories (each with a twist), browbeat them with "verbatim" scenes from Hamlet and Othello...
...Yorker: "In Philadelphia nearly everybody reads The Bulletin. "In its news columns, the Bulletin was solid if unspectacular. Local affairs were covered extensively, but politely: muckraking was frowned upon. Critics gibed that only in Philadelphia would nearly everybody read the Bulletin. But the Bulletin's understated brand of journalism won Pulitzer Prizes...
...failure to allow for local implementation. But given the inability and unwillingness of many states to hike taxes to pay for support services. federal subsidies are necessary to avoid inequities between states and in adequate social aid in most. The aid disparities among states that the President's peculiar brand of federalism would promote would only entice the nation's needy to congregate where welfare benefits are highest. And his decentralization of environmental Regulations would only weaken the national government's potency where it is needed most...
...this it is the war between the old order of things, and a new way, as yet unformed. You can give a lot of examples of the old order. There's imperialism, either the old-fashioned Trade Follows the Flag sort, or the post World War II brand which held that anyone asking for liberty was a puppet of either the CIA or the Kremlin. or the new IMF. "Make the world safe for Alcoa!" sort. There's racism-from slavery to Jim Crow to Bob Jones University, a racism so strong that in this country, even in the wake...