Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post-revolutionary Algeria. A leave of absence, perhaps permanent, from his academic existence. It is certainly a bad decision, and his friends try to dissuade him. He is merely running away, they say, things will be no different. Or: in Algeria, his white skin will be enough to brand him as a symbol of the very thing which he is running away from. He finds himself unable to answer their objections, but nevertheless, he goes ahead and writes a friend already in Algeria, who promises to put Vincent and Francoise up for a while, and get them started in jobs...
...been pressuring the drug industry to lower prices since the mid-1960s, when the cost of running the socialized National Health Service began getting out of hand. Among other things, the Department of Health and Social Security has urged doctors to prescribe drugs by their generic rather than their brand names, and the government has granted rival drug companies the right to copy patented drugs such as Librium and Valium if they pay a royalty to the developing firm. The remedies have had some effect: after Berk Pharmaceuticals Ltd. came out with a copy of Valium called Atensine...
...Dartmouth's cue and run the option, but both Berger and Mackey met Vaughn deep in the backfield. "That's the only way to play it--hit him," Berger said after the game. "That way, he'll hesitate a bit before he considers coming my way again." With his brand of friendly persuasion, Berger caused two fumbles, one of which was recovered by Mackey...
Well I didn't barf last Saturday (I learned my lesson over the summer when, staying with friends in, of all places, a Baptist church, I lost my sneakers in full view of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I did, however, have my sneakers (brand new) stolen while almost drowning in the soup off Newport Beach. What any of this has to do with anything else (especially what follows), I really...
...heart of the well-educated." The genteel and reflective scholar in his sunbathed study does not seem to go with words like hardness, coldness, emptiness of love or barrenness of soul. Gandi perhaps had in his mind a less genteel, and more Imperial prototype. Yet there is a brand of unresponsive Love and of Inert Concern which blesses no more, and damages no less, than straight-forward cynicism. Quiet compassion and relaxed (i.e., controllable) self-accusation are no less evil in their end-results than those more blatant actions of overt destruction executed by the redneck cop, ill-educated soldier...