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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...
...control debate. "CCW permits are not the answer," says Whitmore. "They give you a false sense of security." She argues that the regrets of people like Gratia are outweighed by the regrets of those who had guns but found themselves outdrawn. And certainly Whitmore would be right to distinguish a tinge of the overheated in another of Anderson's satisfied customers, retiree Bob Chadwick. "I won't come downtown much anymore," he says, grabbing an application for his .44-cal. Magnum. "It's a jungle, and it's spreading. I don't want to become a victim." A national survey...
Hullah's memory of this scene is rekindled when he agrees to a series of interviews with an attractive young female reporter who plans a series of articles on "The Toronto That Used to Be." In order to distinguish what he wants to tell her from what he wishes to keep to himself--including his misgivings about Father Hobbes' death--Hullah begins writing notes to himself in a case book, an old-fashioned physician's tool. As his jottings mount up, Hullah notes to himself, "I really must put on the brakes or this Case Book, which I in-tend...
Throughout the week's drama, the man Dole wants to replace kept a low profile. Though Clinton and his advisers have long regarded the amendment as a potentially dangerous gimmick that would make it harder for government to use its spending power to soften recessions, the President tried to distinguish his opposition to the amendment from his support for "the impulses that are giving rise to it." He also pursued a low-key campaign of quiet calls to wavering Democrats, offering them a chance to sit down with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Budget Director Alice Rivlin to work through...
...popular with his Senate colleagues and at home-he won a fourth term in November with 67% of the vote. Nevertheless, he comes across as stiff and bland, with sentences as perfectly clipped as his hair and nails. But his solid, serious nature could serve to distinguish him. An eat-your-spinach campaign helped Paul Tsongas win New Hampshire in 1992; if voters want no-frills straight talk from their politicians, Lugar may be their...