Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babangida's program will entrench military power for years to come. Still, he has promised to restore Nigeria to civilian rule by 1990, and last month he named a 17-member political bureau to recommend methods of + transferring power. In the meantime, Babangida has persuaded Nigerians to accept his brand of military democracy. In many ways, his performance as President will define that seeming contradiction...
This year, the Crimson hoped to play that brand of hockey from the outset...
...products as textiles and, since the early 1970s, steel. Only recently have Korean firms begun to sell a variety of consumer goods. They first entered the mass market indirectly. In 1979 Samsung began making television sets that are among those sold in Sears stores as the company's house brand. Similarly, J.C. Penney started selling microwave ovens manufactured by Goldstar...
...first coupon dispensers, produced by Coupon Systems of Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., displays a list of up to 40 brand-name products. Customers hit buttons corresponding to their choices, and the coupons are printed out. They can then be redeemed at the checkout counter as usual. For each of its products listed, the manufacturer must pay a weekly charge of $10 per store to Coupon Systems, which installs the machines. The company gives a percentage of its revenues to the supermarket...
...country was like a teenager with a brand new sports car, customized and supercharged. Our hot rod cost $1.2 billion and was run by a battery of high-powered computers. It was a machine, of course, and we knew machines could break down. But the shuttle had had breakdowns before and the astronauts handled them routinely. No problem. That the shuttle would just explode sometime was unthinkable. Does A.J. Foyt expect his car to just fall apart when he goes into the final turn at the Indy...