Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That confrontation suddenly seemed at hand last week -- for America and for the world. Since he took power in 1979, the Ayatullah has threatened to spread his uncompromising brand of Islamic fundamentalism across the fragile, oil- rich states that line the Persian Gulf and to upset the global balance of power. He has sought his goals openly in Iran's seven-year war with Iraq, and he has promoted them stealthily through terrorist bombings and kidnapings abroad. Now Khomeini's brooding presence loomed larger than ever as he seemed ready, even eager, to take on a host of nations...
...gulf states that fear their brawling neighbor the most. As the world's only Shi'ite-ruled Muslim country, Iran seeks to export its brand of Islamic revolution throughout the region and to overthrow the Sunni-ruled Muslim regimes in countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The two religious factions have been fierce rivals for centuries. Painfully vulnerable to Iranian subversion, the Sunni gulf nations have been understandably reluctant to alienate Tehran...
...crude Mike Hammer, the microchip age to Dick Tracy's gadgets. His films were comic strips with grown-up cynicism, Hitchcock thrillers without the artistic risks. He was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes -- just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures. "My dear girl," Bond tells a new conquest, "there are some things that just aren't done. Such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees F. That's as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs." Minutes later the dear girl...
...astounding growth of Corona Extra beer, a Mexico City brew with a cult following that has made it the No. 2 imported brand in the U.S., apparently has provoked envious wholesalers of rival brands to resort to some below-the- beer-belly tactics. Last week one of Corona's U.S. importers, Barton Beers, revealed that suds fans in the West and Midwest have been shaken by a rumor that the brand is contaminated with urine. Barton's managers thought they had stopped up the source of the malicious tale last month, when they settled a suit against a Reno-based...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...