Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other nocturnal activities were more pressing. Many delegates boasted of attending three highly liquid receptions a night. In a country where Johnnie Walker Black Label costs upwards of $30 a fifth, the government allowed the delegates to buy three bottles of whisky a week in a duty-free store that was opened for them and increased that ration for parties. One African delegate joked that UNCTAD had set up still another committee, "the extracurricular-activities committee, and it is the busiest...
...trademark of the domestic operating arm, Humble Oil and Refining Co. Trouble is, legal restrictions following the 1911 breakup of the old Standard Oil trust have barred Humble from brandishing the Esso name in 20 states. In parts of the South and West, the company uses the label Enco, or, in Ohio, Humble...
Even outside companies have been caught out by Lincoln's Raiders. Best Foods received a letter from Sixth Grader Brian Houser noting that "on the label of a jar of Skippy dry-roasted mixed nuts I noticed that cashews are listed first. But I found more peanuts. Our committee believes that you should correct the label." (The company replied that Brian's jar was "a poor representative of this line" and enclosed a coupon for another.) Next, some candy companies may have to recall their Euclid shipments because their product does not maintain the proper heft for Saturday...
...decision not to let Shockley teach his genetic theories, Herrnstein is hesitant to label Stanford unfair. He has not seen an outline of Shockley's proposed course and says. "I can't tell whether this is a case of political orthodoxy preventing certain kinds of views from being presented...
Harvard voted against an ecologically-oriented resolution to amend Kennecott Copper's certificate of incorporation, and abstained on resolutions requiring drug companies to label uniformly their foreign and domestic products, and to form committees to evaluate the contributions of their advertising to drug...