Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Park Street's brand of Muzak is not that bad. Not bad, that is, when compared to the Star Market, or the airport. The MBTA has selected a soundtrack that mingles old-time supermarket melodies with contemporary garbage rock and roll -- the bubble gum music that dominates AM radio. It's a curious combination...
...monetary crises created by big-power policies. After calling for a common monetary policy among developing nations, he concluded: "Our political independence will remain illusory unless we achieve a true economic liberation." In a draft economic declaration, the Algerian delegation went on to spell out a kind of couscous brand of nonalignment; it urged recognition of the right of Third World countries to nationalize foreign companies and a redefinition of the role of the World Bank so that its financial resources would be more equitably distributed...
...General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that has prompted President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to call Amin "a madman" and "a buffoon...
...business students do not face the pressures that pre-med students must. Law schools impose their own particular brand of hell--the Law School Aptitude Tests (LSATs)--but it is a much shorter one, lasting only an afternoon, rather than the nine months of Chem 20 (Harvard's frantically competitive organic chemistry course...
...Crimson's short-passing, foreign brand of soccer and the tongue twisting names of its players became as much team trademarks as its winning records as Harvard teams went through the last four years with just one home loss, two regular season setbacks, and losses each year in the NCAAs...