Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later Kennedy held a jampacked press conference to brand the President's proposal as inadequate, inflationary and dangerous. His own plan, the Senator noted, would fix doctor and hospital charges for everybody, the President's only for Healthcare patients. Thundered Kennedy: "This step is a regressive one, inconsistent with the goal of a truly single-class health care system. By failing to set a national budget, by failing to control doctors' fees in the private sector, by perpetuating two separate and unequal systems of care, the President's plan may well become the straw that breaks...
There is evidence that a growing number of Iranians are becoming annoyed by Khomeini's brand of Islamic extremism...
...contraction of American way) Corp., one of the nation's most successful private firms, which is engaged in what he calls "in-the-home selling." In this its 20th year, Amway expects to retail $750 million worth of cosmetics, vitamins, jewelry, home-care products and some 4,000 brand-name appliances and other items direct to customers through catalogues by a network of 300,000 door-to-door salespeople. Amway's achievements are evident not only in its fleet of four corporate jets, its 119-ft. yacht (a 131-footer is on order) and its modern, saucer-shaped...
...letting students, employees, and other members of the community have a say over the conduct of services provided to them flagrantly denies democratic principles. It also defies a principle individuals of any political persuasion can agree on: consumer sovereignty. Is Harvard that cynical about the brand of economics it teaches--to the neglect of what more than half the world's economists pursue--that it will refute daily that theory's fundamental assumptions? I am afraid that one of the most important lessons of the Harvard experience will be how far social institutions are from real democracy, and how little...
...ideological hostility to Government regulation -and embarrass a Democratic President making an unpopular proposal. "We do not need rationing; we need production!" cried John Ashbrook of Ohio. But the biggest reason for the turndown was simple fear that a vote even for stand-by rationing in an emergency would brand a Congressman as being "for rationing" and lose him support at home...