Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...99th anniversary of the original product's birth. The company will transform the city's downtown park into a three-ring circus. Theme for the day: "Step right up to the greatest taste on earth." Coke will also be launching 25,000 red and white balloons, skywriters, banner-flying planes and a skyful of fireworks. Said Coca-Cola Spokesman Robert Hope in a moment of candor: "We're using every glitzy thing you can imagine...
After the solemnity of the cemetery scene, the mood shifted at the air base, where a German military band played The Star-Spangled Banner and U.S. Air Force musicians followed with the West German national anthem. Reagan and Kohl stood at attention on a raised blue platform before 7,500 spectators, many waving small U.S. and West German flags. Said Kohl: "This walk with the President over the graves of the soldiers was not an easy walk . . . I thank you personally as a friend that you undertook this walk with...
...focus attention on the role of U.S. investments in southern Africa, largely with respect to holdings in the Portuguese colonies in that region. Several years later, Swanson came in contact with exiled members of the South African resistance, the African National Congress, as a reporter for the Bay State Banner, a Black Massachusetts weekly. Largely as a result of those interviews, Swanson in 1978 decided to travel to southern Africa...
...downtown Boston, black-robed protesters wearing skull masks act as pall- bearers in a mock funeral for Nicaragua's war casualties. A banner reads 7,000 NICARAGUANS MURDERED BY CIA CONTRAS. At a University of Florida rally in Gainesville, students on the other side of the issue call the contras "freedom fighters" and cheer as Marcos Zeledon, a leader of those rebels, decries Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government. In Los Angeles a large crowd gathers to hear liberal Actor Ed Asner debate with Lewis Lehrman, a conservative activist. The subject: "Should the U.S. resume aid to the contras...
...ethical duty to depart the law school." That article referred specifically to Unger, but the Duke dean continues to generate considerable controversy in legal and others have criticized both the scholarly ability and the morality of CLS professors in numerous harshly-worded essays. "While the adherents to this banner [CLS] are a varied group, it seems safe to characterize them collectively as nihilists Carrington writes. "Their scholarship is often avowedly destructive in its purpose...