Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small place shows that the tax revolt is firmly rooted. Here is a clear vestige of the California-contrived Laffer Curve (the correlation between rising taxes and falling incentive). The ideas of Harvard's Samuel Beer are on many people's minds-not under Beer's label but as an outcropping of a deep vein of common sense. Beer believes that the Government is now so big and so oriented toward self-preservation that it is the Government itself, not citizen need or demand, that stimulates and promotes most of the big new programs...
Once that audience got as far as fusion, it often went still further back in time and finally arrived at "pure" jazz. Says Producer Orrin Keepnews, whose Fantasy/Prestige/Milestone label has put out major rereleases: "If we narrow the gap with fusion, we will have accomplished something large...
...Hirsch, a Jew, moved across the Swiss border to Basel. He won permission to take his collection with him on condition he turn over to the German government Lucas Cranach's painting, The Judgment of Paris. After the war, it was returned to him still bearing the label, THE PROPERTY OF REICHSMAR-SCHALL GOERING. Von Hirsch gave it to the Kunstmuseum in Basel...
...more than three decades the label, familiar to people willing to splurge on furs or lingerie, sports shirts or neckties, has been synonymous with quality, style, high price and, above all, French refinement and good taste. At the same time, Christian Dior has developed into a booming international company with more than 1,000 employees, sales last year of $220 million and handsome (but undisclosed) profits. Yet today an unfortunate link with a troubled textile behemoth makes Dior's future uncertain...
...Among other potential buyers are French cosmetics manufacturer L'Oreal and champagne producer Moët-Hennessy, which bought Christian Dior Perfumes when Boussac needed cash in the early 1970s. The main concern of Dior's management and the French government is that the prestigious label remain in French hands. "You can't separate the Christian Dior image from France's," says Rouet. "When an American woman pays for the Dior label, she wants to know that there is French know-how and style behind...