Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a distance until a U.S. jet fighter cut precariously close to chase his plane off. When the Department of Defense finally provided a short videotape of Cuban weapons caches found in warehouses on Grenada, Cuban prisoners and a few seconds of combat, CBS aired it with a prominent label on-screen reading, "Cleared by Defense Department Censors." At week's end NBC filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Government, demanding the unedited footage that was shot by military photographers...
...Marine Hymn during a recital at the Xavier Junior School of Music. Over the next decade, following a few years of preadolescent musical indifference, teen-age funkifying, intense jazz practitioning and a little professional seasoning with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Wynton Marsalis found himself with a major-label record contract. His debut album has sold about 125,000 copies-a surprisingly strong showing for a jazz record-and pulled down a brace of awards while earning Marsalis a reputation as the hottest young horn in town. Are those footsteps you hear behind you, Miles...
...Angeles-area shoppers who enter the renovated medical building that houses Rick Pallack in Sherman Oaks, for example, find garments bearing such well-advertised labels as Alexander Julian, Perry Ellis and Alan Flusser. Boasts Owner Pallack: "I sell a sport coat that might go on Rodeo Drive for $400 for only $250." Pallack also displays merchandise with his own label, which he claims is often identical to designer wear and made by the same manufacturers. Says he: "Our dress shirt doesn't have the polo player on it, but it's the same as Ralph Lauren...
...Filene's is enhancing its customer service. It has expanded its training program for salesclerks from two hours to up to 24 hours and asked customers to evaluate each sales transaction. Both Dayton's and Filene's are placing greater emphasis on their lines of private-label merchandise. Private labels guarantee exclusivity for whoever sells them and also give department stores greater flexibility in setting prices...
...Soviet Union must save scarce resources; split Europe and China from the United States; manage counter in-surgency wars around the world (Afghanistan, Angola, Eritrea, Kampuchea, and (with minimal direct involvement) Nicaragua); and restore their credentials as "natural ally" of Third World causes by pinning the military-imperialist label on the United States...