Word: label
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...There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...Kerry is primed for this line of attack. He has had many years not just to refine his political philosophy but also to explain it in a way voters might accept and with luck even admire. Throw the Latte Liberal label at him, and Kerry will counter with his support for faith-based programs and welfare reform and the fact that he proposed a dividend tax cut long before Bush did. "They're going to have a hard time pinning that to me," Kerry once told TIME. "They're not going to find it is easy making me something...
...Bush might find subtler ways to use Kerry's words and record against him. When Americans try to gauge whether a politician is liberal or conservative, they look at more than his resume or transcript. "The liberal moniker is as much a cultural label as it is about a voting record," observes Democratic political consultant Anita Dunn. So which Kerry will the country come to see--the one in duck boots, shaped by a Swiss boarding school and Yale secret society? Or the one in sweats and khaki, baptized in the Mekong Delta...
KERRY: That's a phony label that people try [to apply], but it doesn't work. Do you know the first thing I did when I got to Congress in 1985? I joined with Fritz Hollings as one of the original authors and sponsors of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction bill. It was heresy at home, but it proved to be the right policy. I've voted for welfare reform, one of the major defining issues of the decade, because I felt we needed to change the culture. We needed to make work valuable. And I've been...
...heard everywhere all the time. Luckily, she now has enough control to prevent such a thing from happening. In mid-2002, after Come Away with Me had shocked everyone by selling a million records almost entirely on word of mouth, Virgin, the bigger corporate sister of Jones' tiny record label, Blue Note, presented her with an absurdly upbeat remix of her song Don't Know Why, which they hoped to turn into a pulsing pop-radio hit. "It was a full-on drum machine thing," says Jones. "Don't know why ... why ... why ... I didn't come ... come ... come ... Just...