Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Horrified by the choice, Foot first declared that he would never support Tatchell. But adamant local leaders stood by their choice and forced Foot to change his mind. Mellish, meantime, threw his support behind moderate Laborite John O'Grady, 62, who mounted an independent challenge under the label "Real Labor." It was a dirty campaign. Tatchell received 20 death threats, and in an allusion to his rumored sexual preferences, 10,000 pamphlets flooded Bermondsey picturing Tatchell with the monarch above the caption WHICH QUEEN WILL YOU VOTE FOR? The vituperative campaign helped to divide the Labor vote and destroyed...
Evidently, the students' answer was no, for more than half the students surveyed said they considered themselves primarily computer scientists, although the division does not officially recognize that label...
JUST AS STUDENTS have their prototype of the "60s holdover," professors must surely have theirs. Undergraduates apply that label-with either derision or respect-to the fire-in-the-berlly jeans and t-shirt radical who does not register for the draft, who protests with signs and slogans in the street U.S. Involvement in El Salvador or Harvard's investments in South Africa, and who celebrates April 19, 1969-the day 400 students took over University Hall-as some sort of Bastille Day equivalent...
...into precise words my frequent revulsion with the new journalism. A petty piece of writing remains petty whatever label it is given...
...initial test marketing, the company sent salesmen to supermarkets in Kansas City with sample bags of cookies bearing P & G's Duncan Hines label. The inaugural flavors are five varieties of chocolate chip-either plain or combined with butterscotch, almonds, mint or peanut butter-fudge. P & G has previously sold Duncan Hines cookie mix, but this is the company's first challenge to Nabisco and Keebler, the leaders in the $2.5 billion-per-year ready-to-munch-cookie industry. In its sales pitches, P & G asserts that it has developed technology to mass produce a cookie that...