Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...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...
...oarsmen have yet to decide what shell it will be. They have raced all of this year and last in a Schoenbrod but have been practicing in a brand new Carbocraft, the shell Yale employs. Parker, cards close to the vest, will not say which brand the Crimson will...
Within her party, she faces problems. Her Cabinet is seriously split between her own brand of doctrinaire Tory ideologues and the more pragmatic traditional conservatives. Cabinet meetings are often prickly. Ministers who make a weak case or are deemed "wet" (spineless) are sharply chastised. In extreme irritation, Thatcher has a habit of slapping her palms against the green baize tabletop. In the House of Commons, her majority of 43 harbors rebellious, hard-line backbenchers who demand tougher restrictions on trade unions and more ruthless cuts in public spending...
...more than half a century, Sears won the nation's hearts and pocketbooks with solid, if unspectacular, private brand merchandise like Kenmore washing machines and Diehard batteries, which it sold at moderate prices and backed up with reliable service. But beginning in the early 1970s, Sears went astray. Pinched on one side by shopping-mall specialty stores and on the other by discounters like K mart, Sears tried to move uptown. Suddenly, along with familiar bestsellers like Craftsman home tools, Sears emphasized stylish items like Musk Oil aftershave. A merchandiser from New York's Bloomingdale...