Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after day, the warships streamed out of Soviet naval bases on the Baltic and Arctic coasts. Among them were brand-new guided-missile destroyers, missile submarines and, most impressive of all, the 28,000-ton nuclear-powered battle cruiser Kirov. By midweek the hastily assembled battle fleet spanned a vast expanse of ocean, from the waters off Greenland, across to the Shetland Islands, northeast to the fringes of Scandinavia and as far as the glacial Barents Sea. In the air, Soviet antisubmarine and strike aircraft flew almost continuous missions over,the Norwegian Sea. Backfire bombers, reputed to be the Soviets...
Toure was one of the first black African leaders to ally his country openly with the Soviet Union. But when his brand of "revolutionary socialism" failed to alleviate Guinea's poverty, he turned to the West for assistance. The country's new rulers have indicated that they would, if anything, accelerate that trend. Military broadcasts said that the government would "restore the rundown economy through the encouragement of private enterprise and foreign investment...
Picking up on this attractive advertising gimmick, the U.S. Army has apparently introduced its own brand of "get a check," but this time, it's called "get a medal. You just had to have had something--anything to do with last October's Grenada invasion and you would get a medal...
...tuition used to average $600," said Dr. Jerome M. Listernick '54. "Lamont was a brand new, air conditioned library and of course we didn't have the Science Center," he added...
Healy's budget also designates $1 million for the creation of a pension reserve fund for city employees and another $1 million--net reflected in the $159.3 million budget--for a brand new "pay-as-you-go" capital improvements fund...