Word: paraphernalia
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...effort was CASA's Smoke-Free Campus report, released this past August. The report urges colleges and universities to establish campus-wide smoke-free policies, including a ban on the sale, advertising and distribution of all tobacco products and prohibiting the use of the school logo on smoking paraphernalia such as cigarette lighters and ashtrays...
With respect to the use of the school logo on smoking paraphernalia, Harvard does not permit the use of the University logo on "any lighters, cigarettes, or anything to do with smoking," according to Rick Calixto, Harvard's U.S. trademark licensing administrator...
...without recourse to machines that required replacement tapes or batteries. One car did not have a headrest, so agents planted the device in the glove compartment. When the car was brought in for a regular inspection, KGB mechanics found the bug and quickly inspected other vehicles for similar spy paraphernalia. By then the FBI had infiltrated 20 cars. The KGB removed every single bit of buggery. According to Kessler, the cost to the U.S. was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Less high-mindedly, the Leonard Bernstein Society has presided over a profusion of Lenniana: Lenny note cards, Lenny umbrellas, Lenny tote bags, Lenny T shirts and Lenny sweats, in addition to authorized editions of his records, books and Harvard lectures. (The paraphernalia does have a pedagogical purpose: proceeds go to the Bernstein Education Through the Arts Fund, established in 1990 to encourage arts education in the schools.) On Wednesday, Bernstein's adopted hometown will honor his legacy when it renames a stretch of West 65th Street near Lincoln Center "Leonard Bernstein Place," putting Bernstein in New York City's street...
Across the U.S., companies that offer security devices report booming sales in both low-tech paraphernalia (Mace, burglar bars, door alarms) and high-tech apparatus (video doorbells, motion-detection devices). Meanwhile, existing forms of high technology are being pressed into the services of security. Cellular phones are popular not only with businessmen but also with people who fear being stranded because of auto trouble or attacked while on the road. As their cost goes down, many are buying them for emergency use only...