Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assorted brands of any one product; thus well-stocked hardware stores or grocers are unlikely to be run out of business by the invading hypermart. Cases in point: Hypermart USA's sporting- goods department offers fishing poles but no lures or other tackle. The paint department sells only one color: white...
...Crimson is hoping that today will prove to be a Tiger of a different color...
These age-old images of Iowa, however, die hard. Even the candidates, who routinely feign enthusiasm while touring hogpens, foster the hayseed stereotypes. Although their state dominates the news in the closing weeks before the caucuses, Iowans can rightly claim to be misunderstood. Four myths in particular color popular assumptions about the state and its voters...
DESCRIPTION: strength of George Bush and Robert Dole among likely Republican voters nationwide and in Iowa. Color illustration: Red and purple elephants...
...retailer Neiman-Marcus came out with festive red bags bearing its logo. Displayed at 22 U.S. stores and priced as high as $6.25 for a pack of 20, the sacks were touted as the "aesthetic way to dispose of life's debris." In the garbage-handling industry, however, the color red is an almost universal symbol for infectious hospital waste, which calls for special treatment. When waste-management officials in Maryland complained about the potential for confusion, Neiman-Marcus promptly stopped selling the red bags in its nearby Washington store. But the colored sacks have sold so well that...