Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along Beijing's Xiushui Street, merchants in makeshift metal stands plaintively urge shoppers to buy jade-green grapes, bright red Coca-Cola sportswear and Begonia Flower-brand silk lingerie. A balding trader, waving a fan, hawks Christian Dior-label shirts. They cost 100 yuan ($27) abroad, he confides, but his price is only 25 yuan ($6). A real bargain. The yellow license in his stall identifies him as a ge ti hu (private entrepreneur), who sells his wares on the free market...
Some, like Notre Dame and Air Force, are former powerhouses who fell from grace. Others, like Alabama-Huntsville, are brand-new programs...
...been my friend. On Monday, Nov 4, I went for the Crimson and turned to the special Cambridge page and Lo and Behold! I found my name to be in the Harvard Crimson Editorial column. I came across a paragraph that said "Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth. "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci, however, opposes the CCA candidates' effort to create a "linkage" program that would help alleviate the pressures of development by requiring large-scale builders...
Uncertainty prevails among the 2,000 dealers in the brand-new Kabutocho exchange building as they try to make sense of Friday's record loss in New York. What will happen on Wall Street later today? The Nikkei Dow Jones index of 225 traded stocks falls from...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...