Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those towns where almost every building is one-story and surrounded by parking lots. It's a drive-in town; what was once America's largest shopping mall, up the street a very busy McDonald's and Burger King, down the road those big discount houses with name-brand stereos, $179.99 for two weeks only. It's near Rte. 128, and the very smallest computer firms start out here, in the brick office parks put up in the 50s. When they leave, different businesses move in to the treeless complexes. One parking lot has a dance studio, a musical instrument...
...occasion was a great leap forward for Deng, his shrewd brand of pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo...
...many, the answer was clearly no. The ever cautious and gentlemanly Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to brand the timing of Haig's announcement in Peking that the U.S. had agreed "in principle" to sell lethal weapons to China as "needlessly provocative" to the Soviet Union. "It smacks of bearbaiting rather than dealing seriously with the problems," Vance said. Later in the week, he charged that the arms proposals for China "virtually removed any influence we have left over the Soviet Union. We played the China card...
...even casual sniffing can lead to more potent and potentially damaging ways of using cocaine and other drugs. Many cokeheads take sedative pills like methaqualone, brand-named Quaaludes (tons of which are illegally imported from Colombia) to calm down after their high and take the edge off their yearning for more coke...
...briskly, and, in several action sequences, clipped a frame or two from within a shot to increase the impact. With prominent display of Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo, a Neptune two-man submarine and a "Jim" diving suit, For Your Eyes Only is an accumulation of gadgets and brand names-a Radio Shack of a boy wizard's dreams...