Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swindles began to unravel last year in Liverpool, where a firm called Eutron Ltd. had hired a British bonded warehouse company to store and label bottles of French wine shipped in from The Netherlands. Eutron ran up a $22,000 bill with the warehouse, which in turn seized 3,000 bottles of wine still awaiting export to the U.S. Meanwhile a British customs officer got curious about the special green certificates of origin that under European Community rules must accompany quality wines. On the Dutch seal on one form, he noticed, the likeness of Queen Juliana was facing...
...seem vain but essentially harmless. Yet it has a seamier side. One outgrowth of the nation's aversion to aging has been a tendency to look askance at, and often down on, people in the later years of life. The attitude has lately been tagged with the awkward label ageism...
...upstage Adams, the undisputed center of the film. It is a rare treat to see a movie with such a realistic and honest portrayal of a woman. Then again, it it rare for a movie to be produced, directed and written by women, as this one is. But to label it as a "woman's movie" is to deny its greater focus. My Brilliant Career is about a person who struggles for individuality in a constrained society. The question, though, is whether individuality and love are mutually exclusive, as Sybylla all too abruptly decides they must...
...Ultravox lost its contrast with Island Records, and after a final U.S. tour, the band exorcised vocalist John Foxx amidst ruffled feathers and misunderstandings. The word than spread that Foxx was working on a totally electronic record, and that he would produce it for his new independent label. By that point, however, Gary Numan had the near world eating out of his metal palm; it was all too easy to imagine Foxx copying his own imposter, and slapping together a buch of machine mumbo-jumbo with titles like "Submarining with the Aliens" and "The Aliens Meet the Happy Hollisters...
...been controversial since 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a ban on saccharin due to the discovery that large doses of saccharin cause bladder cancer in rats. Congress postponed the ban pending the outcome of further studies, but the FDA requires diet-drink bottlers to label their soda with warnings of the possible risk...