Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider some of the features offered on the major commercial computer networks. An on-line catalog called Comp-u-store lists discount prices of as much as 50% on 250,000 brand-name consumer items, from Hickory Farms sausages to Stanley Tools wrenches, and accepts electronic orders for any of them. A-Z Worldwide Hotel Index carries rates and descriptions of 25,000 domestic and international hotels. The Career Network holds 4,000 resumes and 3,000 job openings. Stockvue analyzes the performance of 3,100 common stocks. The IRS provides full-text electronic versions of its 75 most requested...
...potential adjustments in the law, the IRA momentum is unlikely to diminish in the near future. With a certain amount of wonder, Economist Johnson of the Investment Company Institute declares that "many consumers are saving for an IRA contribution by forgoing weekend movies or a spring vacation or that brand-new suit." U.S. consumers, usually noted for their spending, now appear to have saving on their minds, at least until April...
...when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only to Presidents, evangelists and coaches in the N.C.A.A. Final Four. On the big screen it seems suffocatingly smug...
...call for a more conservative Democratic Party --without resorting to want ads. Organized by young, centrist Governors and Congressmen, many from the South and West, after Walter Mondale's rout in the 1984 presidential election, the D.L.C. set out to do three things: shift the party away from standard-brand liberalism, stem defections to the G.O.P., and create a climate for a moderate or conservative Democrat to succeed Ronald Reagan as President. What a difference a year makes. Notes Virginia ex- Governor Charles Robb, who will shortly become the next D.L.C. chairman: "What we've done is evoke new interest...
...feminism--or a certain brand of feminism--has gone beyond those liberal claims, attempting to recast the roles of men and women, and to change the rules of the Battle of the Sexes. Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, laid the foundations by contending that women have been repressed by the socially tolerated threat of rape. One implication is that women can never achieve equality with men until rape is wiped out. Another is that sexual relations are somehow inherently unjust, that a man always has the tacit trump card of a potential rape to play against his partner...