Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard and Radcliffe students are as integrated as the corporate bureaucracy could possibly create: Questions (specifically in Chem 20) are a mark of the student's stupidity, only stylized rhetoric affirming the bias of course administrations is acceptable as independent thought, and students grab ahold of Harvard's "brand" name and distinguished institutions (e.g., the Pudding) as the last thread of an identity. The problem is that this is not a school, it is a corporation. The school is run for the corporation and not the reverse...
...supermarket chain's house brand of canned and other processed foods; they sell for at least 10% less than well-known labels. In fact, many house brands are produced by name-brand food companies. Also, pass up "instant foods" that take less time to prepare but are usually more expensive than their inconvenient alternatives. By buying house brands and avoiding convenience foods, a typical middle-income family could chop $350 off its annual food budget...
...term only begins to describe Lincoln Steffens. Biographer Justin Kaplan does the rest with the same clarity, critical intelligence and warm grip on the American past that he demonstrated in his Pulitzer-prizewinning biography of Mark Twain. Lincoln Steffens appears at a time when the achievements of his particular brand of muckraking, like that of Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair and Ray Stannard Baker, are all but forgotten. Today is the age of megamuck and a more sophisticated breed of raker. With the exception of Watergate, the corrective campaigns of S.S. McClure's magazine, where Steffens and his colleagues launched...
...MIDDLE EAST. The two superpowers are at odds over how to achieve a peaceful resolution of Arab-Israeli hostilities. In a dazzling display of his personalized brand of "shuttle diplomacy," Kissinger successfully negotiated disengagement between Egypt and Israel. After his return from Moscow, he will attempt to work out a similar agreement involving Israel and Syria, a considerably more difficult task. The settlement talks began last December in Geneva under joint Soviet-American auspices. But the Russians, who for years have been the chief arms suppliers to the Arab world, feel humiliated and embarrassed that they have seemingly contributed nothing...
...prompting a reluctant renaissance of pioneer frugality. Mrs. F. Dale Lah of Hampton township, Pa., has begun baking her own bread with store-bought frozen dough and getting by with cheaper cuts of meat by applying more meat tenderizers. "I used to go into a supermarket and buy any brand I wanted, but now I take the one with the coupons," she says. Nessa Forman, arts editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has become a paragon of self-control. "I used to think nothing of going into a store and buying a pair of shoes without looking at the price...