Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stalwarts among the Carlson groups accounted for almost half of last year's billion-dollar-plus sales. One of them, the catalogue showroom retailing operations, which grossed $216 million, embraces brand-name discount chains that require little in the way of display space, sales help and security personnel because customers order merchandise from catalogues. Thus the companies can undercut many of the big low-price chains like K mart. The other, the Carlson Premium Group, which last year got one-third of its $250 million revenues from Gold Bond Stamps, organizes incentive programs for companies that reward high-achieving...
...also important to understand that the University's lack of sensitivity on the issue of Apartheid in South Africa is in line with Harvard's social and intellectual commitment to the particular brand of exploitation and barbarism cuphemistically known as Western civilization. It is in line with Harvard's failure to recognize the need to broaden its curriculum to include the range of alternative viewpoints to the male, white European ethnocentrism that it now purveys as "liberal" education. Harvard does not recognize or even understand the meaning and validity of Women's Studies.Afro-American Studies. Native American Studies...
More important, he has fashioned his own special brand of third-set lightning this season, winning all seven of his matches that have gone the full three sets by a combined game total...
...want this new country to be a sham, a fraud, a hollow shell with the mere trappings of independence-a brand-new flag, sleek limousines, black faces in Parliament and the U.N. I do not want Zimbabwe ever to become another banana republic...
...personality, Thatcher poses a problem for Labor. Drawing on his own reassuring image, Callaghan makes the most of Thatcher's radical brand of conservatism, her inexperience in foreign affairs and her hard line on the unions. So far, he does not mention her by name, and he has warned his aides against any personal attacks for fear of a backlash. Women make up more than half of the electorate, and polls show that more women vote Conservative than vote Labor. Somewhat surprisingly, working-class women tend to favor Thatcher more than middle-class women do, and the Tory leader...