Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell about $30 million of its Soho Natural Sodas this year. In an out-of-court settlement, the ten-year-old company forced Anheuser-Busch (1986 revenues: $7.6 billion) to drop the checkerboard logo that appears on its Zeltzer Seltzer sodas. American Natural had charged that the Zeltzer Seltzer design looked "confusingly similar" to its own. Said American Natural President Sophia Collier: "This just shows you have to fight for what's right...
...Poverty of Nations, maintained that land reform would wipe out Third World poverty. Myrdal was awarded a Nobel medal for economics in 1974. He and his wife Alva, who died in 1986, four years after being named a Nobel Peace laureate for her tireless advocacy of nuclear disarmament, helped design the Swedish welfare state. Nonetheless, Gunnar Myrdal in 1980 charged that excessive taxation was "turning Swedes into a gang of hustlers." A man of perplexing contradictions, he wrote early in his career, "Human beings are good; we can improve conditions through reforms," but later decided, "The world is going...
Today's Hearst papers are a mostly pallid lot. The San Francisco Examiner, however, has brightened considerably under Publisher (and founder's grandson) Will Hearst, while the San Antonio Light has improved its design and added more feature stories. Nearly all make money either because they are the only papers in town or because, as in the case of the Examiner, they have entered into joint operating agreements with their competitors, allowing both papers to save on production costs. But, admits Bennack, "it's no secret that we have had some significant problems in the newspaper field." Los Angeles...
...confirmed that such a weapon, which he calls a "kind of nuclear shotgun with little pellets," is being developed under the code name Prometheus, despite SDI's supposedly nonnuclear status. It is only one among several new approaches to nuclear weaponry secretly under study in the nation's bomb-design shops, including the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories...
McFarlane depicts Reagan as a hands- on leader when it came to the contras. -- Scientists design a better bomb...