Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terriers simply outclassed the Crimson in every aspect of the game. Harvard did not play poorly, as it had in the Beanpot final, but B.U. brought a superior brand of hockey...
...possibly final try at working out a lasting settlement between the Israelis and the Arabs. The Secretary nowadays is much more confident on the road than in Washington. Crowds gather in hotel lobbies to applaud his entrance. Heads of state trust him and welcome the very personal, secretive brand of diplomacy that is under attack at home...
...brand Kissinger an appeaser and demand the removal of a President is a curious blend of simple and lordly tastes. He likes the perquisites of his $90,000-a-year job, including being chauffeured in a black Cadillac limousine. Meany rides in front -not as a gesture toward egalitarianism, but because he gets carsick if he tries to read while sitting in back. On his way home to Bethesda, Md., he usually pores over the New York Daily News, a surviving habit from his days in The Bronx, which he left almost 30 years...
Vinnell Corp., though not exactly a household brand name, is scarcely a do-nothing James Bond Universal Export with a plaque on a door and all mystery within. The privately owned company, headquartered in a Los Angeles suburb, was incorporated in 1945, and has specialized in large-scale building and engineering projects in the U.S. and in more than 40 countries abroad. Vinnell served as the contractor for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, paved highways in several Western states, and for a time was a large steel fabricator in Southern California. The company has also enjoyed a lucrative and thriving...
...century when the greatest composers have struggled to create intellectually satisfying structures. Messaien wrote music which he hoped would "delight the auditory senses with delicate, voluptuous pleasures." His music is sensuous and evocative, with an emotional immediacy painfully lacking in most contemporary music. His naive, naturalistic brand of Catholic mysticism, which in his later years took the form of an obsession with birds, provided him with a focus and an organizing principle for his music that other 20th century composers have lacked. Because he no longer needed to search for self-definition with each work, he felt free to write...