Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tories upstaged both Labor and the Alliance by having Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of Evita and Cats, write a campaign tune titled It's Great to Be Great. Party Chairman Tebbit proudly labeled the music "brand new, not second hand," like Brahms' Fourth Symphony, Labor's theme, or the Alliance's Trumpet Tune by 17th century Composer Henry Purcell. All in all, many Britons agreed with Independent Television News' Jon Snow, who declared, "The campaign has become Americanized." Labor put on a strong show by adopting staged events, photo opportunities and other techniques refined by Thatcher four years ago. Last...
Parker, the first famous American woman humorist, probably inspired more awe -- and more imitative bad manners -- than any other female of her day. She remains one of the best-known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy journalism or more than a handful of her poems, most of which depend on the confectionery trick of concealing a goo of sentimental self-pity beneath a brittle crust...
...need for Volcker's brand of inflation fighting arose during the aftermath of two oil shocks, which had sent prices zooming out of control by 1979. G. William Miller, who had served only 17 months as Fed chief, was proving ineffective against the growing crisis. Suddenly one day in July, while Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon was cooling off in his backyard pool, he got an urgent phone call from President Jimmy Carter, who wanted suggestions for a new Fed boss. "Paul Volcker," Solomon replied with little hesitation. "Who's that?" Carter asked, not recognizing the name of the head...
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...
...avoid thinking about being Black for more than two days at a time except sometimes during Reading Period. (Occasionally I hear from a Black student the following: "I don't think about being Black" or "Being Black is not an issue in my life." These statements, which immediately brand the speaker as either a liar or victim of autism, can be isolated as a corollary to the white student's "I don't think of you as Black"--a phrase whose originator must have thought conferred the equivalent of knighthood...