Word: souvenir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tiger Woods' lawsuit against the Franklin Mint over an unauthorized souvenir commemorating the 1997 Masters was settled with Woods receiving "a substantial monetary settlement" and a permanent injunction barring the company from using his name and likeness...
...acquisitive Middelhoff picked up Random House as if it were a souvenir. Last fall he came to the U.S. to study English and learn about the American publishing industry. At a 70th-birthday bash for Si Newhouse, he mentioned to the birthday boy that if Advance were ever interested in selling Random House, Bertelsmann would be interested in buying. A week later the clandestine deal, code-named Project Black, was under...
...even Peter the Great squirm. It seems as though for every Lenin statue hauled down after the fall of the Soviet Union, a dozen Western products have muscled their way into the lucrative Muscovite market. The "McLenin's" T-shirts sold to tourists around Red Square are a telling souvenir...
...following day, Jan. 23, ABC became the first major news outlet to break the dress story based on its own sources. Jackie Judd reported that "Lewinsky says she saved, apparently as a kind of souvenir, a navy blue dress with the President's semen stain on it." In a tantalizing choice of words, Judd attributed the story to "someone with specific knowledge" of the events. Last week ABC spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the network is "satisfied with the sources," but declined to characterize them further...
That was a little disingenuous, since Lewinsky left the White House staff nearly two years ago for a job at the Pentagon. Ginsburg also made light of the "souvenir shop" gifts that Lewinsky received from Clinton--no dress, "unless you consider a long T shirt a dress." And as for the alleged 'DNA dress,' " he added, "I have said for two weeks now that I have investigated that very carefully because I think it's a very important potential piece of evidence. I'm not aware that any such dress exists." The next day he announced he and Lewinsky would...