Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that smacks of more value is likely to catch buyers' eyes. Discount stores are even racking up sizable gains as department store profits decline. K Mart's business in the first quarter was up 14% while Sears' grew a meager 1.5%. Sales of so-called no-brand generic products, which can be substituted for their nationally advertised siblings but are packed in plain black-and-white packages, are also on the increase. The plain-marked product often sells for 30% to 50% less than the national brand, and some 14,000 stores now carry no-brand products...
Harberger's association with the Chilean military regime, his brand of "Chicago school" economics and his strictly economic approach to development prompted Faculty and students to first question, then protest Bok's offer...
...arguments are familiar; this book, a compendium of renovated Cold War polemics, will change no minds. Those who have looked with favor on Nixon and his brand of geopolitics in the past will not be disappointed; those who have not will find it a paranoid and self-justifying comic book, tediously rehashing old arguments and hair-raising tales of the Red Menace circa 1980, weighed down by an endless--and pretentious--string of quotes from Karl Marx to Richard Pipes...
...leaders are not expected to clash over ideology or basic policy. They are all Tito loyalists, committed to his basic principles: a federal political system for maintaining Yugoslavia's national unity, the unique system of worker self-management of factories that characterizes the country's maverick brand of Marxism, and strict nonalignment between East and West. Says one French diplomat: "The country's leadership and people will unite at the slightest hint of Soviet menace...
...Kurdish autonomy. The Kurds said that they wanted only to preserve their culture and Ian guage and to run their own local government. Tehran suspected that their real goal was independence. What particularly irritates the central government is the disdain of the Kurdish population for Khomeini's brand of militant Islam. They prefer the Kurdish Democratic Party and other leftist groups to the clerical establishment in power in Tehran...