Word: chime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Companies can get trademark protections for distinctive colors that distinguish their brands from others, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled today. Justice Steven Breyer, who wrote the ruling, noted trademarks have been granted for the shape of Coca-Cola bottles, the scent of sewing thread and NBC's three-chime jingle. "If a shape, a sound and a fragrance can act as symbols, why, one might ask, can a color not do the same?" he wrote. The decision reversed a lower court's denial of a trademark for green-gold dry-cleaning press pads made by a Chicago firm. Columbia...
...driving forces behind the agency's decision to study dioxin: "You name almost every hormone system in the body, and dioxin interacts with it. And when you're dealing with hormones, they all talk to each other. When you ring one bell, many others chime...
...maybe not," the seers chime. "They will not will this one time. Someone else will take the crown, Someone else with take the town, Another one, who no one trusts, The one that makes the bracket bust...
...clouds gathering over her, Jessica seems cheerfully unaware of her situation. When photographers descend to capture these last days, she holds her parents by the hand and breaks into the Barney theme song. "I love you, you love me," she sings, as her parents chime in gamely. "We're a happy fam-i-leeee...
...Diana believes in the Crown fully as much as he does, and works for it tirelessly. Early this month, the Economist printed a thoughtful story about the British constitution. Its proposals did not include abolishing the monarchy. Should it go? According to the Economist, "Common sense and political prudence chime, No. It makes people happy. Cromwell made them cross." Diana's achievement in the past 10 years has been to turn up the megawattage on the happy side. She ought to do just fine in the 21st century...