Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Senators declined to give the Pentagon that reason for calling a press conference. Said Texas Republican John Tower: "That was a brand-new concept, that you limit the damage of leaks by confirming them...
...gym/history teacher. That glimmer of reportorial interest was spark enough; since, there have been visits every couple of weeks from party members bearing the newspaper and willing to talk about the revolution, more than willing. Dawn, a party publicist, comes most often. She speaks a strange brand of English, leaning heavily on the rhetorical question ("Yeah, but what's at the base of all that?"). There is a theory for almost everything, and as long as you buy the basic assumption--that capitalists consciously try to oppress others constantly--then it fits together pretty well. And the inevitability part...
Irate shoppers are balking more strongly than before at the high prices and seeking out money-saving shortcuts. Sales of so-called generic products, which come in plain packages and often cost 25% or so less than national brand products, continue to boom. Within the past six months, the Star Market Co., based in Cambridge. Mass., claims to have introduced unbranded products to the U.S., has had a 10% increase in sales on 85 of them. Its parent, Chicago's Jewel Companies Inc., now has 170 such items in its stores, and the company claims that almost all customers...
...simplistic answers to highly complex questions on such important issues as defense and the economy. In a political age in which it seems vital that a candidate possess the intelligence to understand all aspects of an issue, why do you think the public has responded so strongly to your brand of simple answers to complex questions...
...been left by Manchester's opening act, the Unknown Comic, Murray Langston, a man who has taken a simple brown bag and filled it with a career. Before leaving the stage, Langston, whose bizarre brand of comedy was too wild, too earthy and too intense for this tie-and-tux crowd, had made one last attempt at a joke. Holding the glass high, he shattered it in his hand. "Is it live," he chortled, satirizing Manchester's TV commercials, "or is it Memorex?" Having elicited nothing more than a few titters, Langston must have wondered the same thing about...