Word: brands
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...core interests of the U.S. Even if the U.S. were to "write off" these areas as soft regions, there would be scant likelihood of their developing Communist political systems, at least of the Moscow-Peking variety. Present tendencies in Europe and the Americas are toward a more nationalistic brand of Communism and socialism...
...Habsburgs still thought of him as the best defender of their particular brand of earth. At 71, senile and just two years short of death, he was dispatched to the War of Polish Succession. Outnumbered 5 to 1 by the forces of France, he failed miserably. Years later, Frederick the Great, remembering his days of apprenticeship, mourned the fate of both Eugen and Marlborough. "What a humbling reflection for our vanity," he wrote. "The greatest geniuses end up as imbeciles. Poor humanity, boast of your glory if you dare...
Landmark Article. As the law goes, privacy is virtually a brand-new right. Until 1890, no U.S. or British court had ever granted relief expressly for "the right to be let alone." Then came a landmark article in the Harvard Law Review by two young Boston lawyers, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (the future Supreme Court justice). As they saw it, the modern press had become so snoopy that modern man was being subjected to "mental pain and distress far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury." Their insistence on privacy as a new legal right...
...Wisconsin chapter, admits: "In numerical terms, we don't make very many converts." One reason, suggest Protestants critical of the movement, may be that Inter-Varsity is too narrowly and introspectively concerned with personal behavior. In answer, Inter-Varsity leaders argue that the fellowship's Bible-centered brand of discipline uniquely equips young Christians to witness for Christ in their post-college jobs. "We train a man to be a football player," says Alexander, "and then let him decide which football team he wants to play...
...article Johnson spelled out his brand of idealistic pragmatism and condemned the tendency to label and dogmatize, with too many politicians preferring to be expedient rather than patient: "To grant audiences to 170 million Americans would be exhausting. So we make our divisions, our classifications and our cross-classifications, which permit us to forgo the listening and the searching we ought...