Word: brandsness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Condoms are now also easier to buy. They emerged from behind the pharmacist's counter after a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling made it legal to advertise and display them. Today about the only difficult part of buying them is choosing from some 50 brands of varying colors and...
Talbott's treatment of the SS-20 continues his deceptive even-handedness. He first brands it as a weapon "designed to circumvent" the limits of SALT I, "a classic example of the Soviet penchant for playing as close as possible to the edge of what is permissible...but nonetheless upsetting...
This temperance trend has produced another new competitor called the wine cooler, which combines fruit juice, carbonated water and wine in a drink that is only about 6% alcohol, roughly half as much as traditional vintages. First cococted in 1981 by a Coors beer distributor, the beverage is available in...
But networking is a complex business. The question of computability--that is, how to make different brands of computers talk to each other--remains a problem. Until this is worked out, networking here, and elsewhere, is likely to remain primitive.
When and if the University does establish such a system, officials say it is likely that the IBM, DEC and Apple machines would be compatible, but they are unwilling to speculate on the possibilities that lower priced brands would fit into the system.