Word: brands
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Ominous Omissions. Drawn up under the personal supervision of Ulbricht, the new document is a monument to his tough brand of Communism. It empowers the Council of State, of which Ulbricht is the chief, to veto any decisions by other government branches, including those of the courts. Slavishly socialist, it pledges eternal devotion to the Soviet Union and declares that East Germany has the responsibility to lead the rest of Germany "into a future of peace and Socialism." Formally establishing the old Marxist goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it states that "all political power is exercised...
Borges avoids the pendantic bookishness one would expect of a man of his learning. In the lectures--as in his fictions, essays and poetry--his eclecticism distills the literary experience of the past into his own distinctive brand of creativity...
...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...
...brand of Presidential politicking has brought another harbinger of spring to the state. Long before the first robin will blow in from the South, farmers have begun to notice flocks of students moving in from Eastern colleges. They are part of Sen. Eugene McCarthy's "kiddie corps" canvassing voters for the April 2 Presidential primary...
...selling an exclusive picture story about himself to the weekly magazine Paris Match for $7,000 "after he imprudently offered it before numerous witnesses to the highest bidder." The Communist daily paper L'Humanité followed with another charge: that Killy last year agreed to use a brand of Italian ski poles exclusively in exchange for an unknown sum of money-and that Crespin later paid the manufacturer $6,000 to keep mum about it. Still other stories circulated that Killy makes up to $75,000 a year out of skiing. Although Killy hotly denied all accusations of professionalism...