Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, a tentative line-up for the 1973 race included two challengers from France, Australia and Britain, and one each from West Germany, Canada and Italy. And who will sail for the defense? The victorious Intrepid syndicate lost no time announcing that it will make its bid with a brand-new 12-meter to be sailed by Bill Picker...
...agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated to play the two giants off against one another. When Soviet arms deliveries to replace weapons destroyed in the 1967 war fell behind schedule, Army Chief of Staff Mustafa Tlas journeyed to Peking. The Soviets caught up on their...
...reasons for the Social Democrats' loss of strength were plain enough. Sweden's brand of state-supervised capitalism has given the country Europe's highest per capita Gross National Product in 1968 ($3,230 v. $4,305 in the U.S.), shortest factory hours (35.4 per week) and highest retirement pensions (two-thirds of peak earnings). Despite those pluses, the country has a ringingly familiar list of social complaints...
Harvard's new pro-type formation has produced some exciting football unfamiliar to the connoisseur of the Crimson's more conservative brand of football in the past. There were several long runs. Miller broke loose for 50 yards, Demars went for 44, Foster ran for 22 and Crone had runs of 16, 26 and 28 yards...
Even countries that have themselves been traditional suppliers of cheap labor have now begun to look offshore for still lower-priced labor. Italian manufacturers make many of the refrigerators and other appliances sold in the European Common Market, often under German, French or Dutch brand names, because their wage rates were the lowest in the six-nation community; they also make aircraft parts for U.S. firms. Wage rates in many northern Italian plants, however, have now climbed to equality with other parts of the Common Market, and Italian unions are demanding that the same scales be extended to workers...