Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even Ronin, his first original project for DC Comics. Any iconoclast is lost without a background of tradition to work with and assumptions to question. Thus comes Batman: The Dark Knight, his latest and best work, where he introduces one of the great heros of comics to his own brand of urban reality...
...matter of style and motives. A new brand of protest is on the market, and physicians are taking note...
...paying dairy farmers to sell their herds for export or slaughter and get out of the business. The USDA incentive: up to $22.50 in lieu of each 100 lbs. of milk that the farmer normally would have produced over one year. But to participate in the program, dairymen must brand every cow with a 3-in. X on the right jaw. Reason: without such markings, cows that were supposedly slaughtered or exported could be surreptitiously sold to other U.S. farmers ; and keep on producing milk for the American market. The USDA has received about 40,000 applications for the program...
...White House for a talk with Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz. U.S. officials hope Dobrynin, who is taking up a Kremlin post as a senior adviser to Gorbachev, will be carrying a message that could get private discussions going again after months of what diplomats brand "megaphone diplomacy." Indeed, Dobrynin reportedly has been empowered to set a date for a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze that Shultz has been trying to arrange for months. They would begin preparing a more important meeting: the second Reagan-Gorbachev summit, which is supposed to occur in the U.S. this...
What boasts six staterooms, quilted leather ceilings, a steam room, a screening room, 14 bathrooms, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, two racing boats and, oh yes, a helicopter? (No peeking at the picture.) The answer, from the ever grand Malcolm Forbes, is a brand-new yacht he discreetly describes as "dramatically restrained, in quiet taste, nothing opulent." At least not for someone who collects million-dollar Faberge eggs for fun. Last week 107 guests, including Secretary of State George Shultz and Chief Justice Warren Burger, came aboard to admire the $5 million, 151-ft. three-decker at the Forbes magazine tycoon...