Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching the Tables. But despite the new Brandt brand on the Socialist Party, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats were sure to go into the election campaign running strong. Polls showed that 69% of West Germany's voters still considered Adenauer's performance as Chancellor "satisfactory," "good," or "very good," and the issue that in the past has cut most ice with West Germans politically-the Federal Republic's booming prosperity-was still in the Christian Democrats' favor. Moreover, the damaging and undignified rivalry between Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "the engineer of the German...
...Sold only in The Netherlands, although the brand name is marketed across Europe by other Unilever companies, which prepare it according to their own formulas...
...royal seat of Luang-prabang and is apparently keeping the King under something close to house arrest. Last week, after a quick trip to Thailand, whose strongly anti-Communist government loudly distrusts Kong Le & Co., General Phoumi turned up in the southern Laotian town of Savannakhet with a brand-new radio transmitter and a vow to chase Kong Le out of the capital...
...resistance movement to government by foreigners. Though the Mafia runs a kind of crude kangaroo legal system-which is often preferred by the peasants to the caprices of a distrusted judge-much of Sicily's violence is as simple and stark as passion and avarice. For dispensing its brand of justice, the Mafia is handsomely paid. In Licata, probably Italy's most debt-ridden town, Mafia usurers charge interest as high as 120% monthly...
...hope in Africa, which (however much he has been discredited), he is, and they allege that Tshombe is a tool of the Belgian government, which, in some measure, he is also. What they do not acknowledge is the fact that the former's leadership is of a very dubious brand indeed, and that the latter will not let anyone, including, if need be, Belgium, distract him from his ambitions of independence...