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...greatest challenges come from foreign countries where trademark laws are different fromaand often less rigorously enforcedathan in the United States. Regardless of the worldwide fame of the name, in some countries the first company to register >=Harvard=there is that kind of feel, just like traditional, classic.=Marks & Spencer is allowed to sell men s toiletries bearing the Harvard mark only in Marks & Spencer stores and only outside the U.S., Canada and Mexico,=It wasn t an agreement that we had a choice over,=cease and desist=noxious=Our attorneys proved to them that we weren t using the trademark...
PROVENANCE: A column Schmich wrote in 1997 achieved fame when it got sent out over the Internet, inexplicably and erroneously labeled as a commencement speech by author Kurt Vonnegut. Taken with Schmich's words, Luhrmann added a techno beat...
...that project evanesced. But the seductive stylized drawings and paintings of her work, plus the fact that she was a female architect of consistent vision, backbone and--as a made-for-media bonus--booming voice, frank views and flamboyant wardrobe, put her in the awkward position of having fame and headlines aplenty but buildings...
...first brush with fame came soon after the war, when he was selected to be a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference of 1918-19. The young Keynes held his tongue as Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau imposed vindictive war reparations on Germany. But he let out a roar when he returned to England, immediately writing a short book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace...
...With her fame and eloquence and reputation for precision, Carson could count on the support of leading scientists and conservation organizations, and was well positioned to command a hearing. Even so, the Digest and other magazines had little interest in this gloomy subject. Then, in 1957, there was a startling wildlife mortality in the wake of a mosquito-control campaign near Duxbury, Mass., followed by a pointless spraying of a DDT/fuel-oil mix over eastern Long Island for eradication of the gypsy moth. Next, an all-out war in the Southern states against the fire ant did such widespread harm...