Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teammate Editor Hills, who learned investigative reporting on Detroit's now defunct Scope magazine, does not hesitate to charge the union with the bombing. Patent nonsense, reply union leaders. "If we were in the business of blowing up places, and we aren't any more," says one official, "we'd have gone for the valuable equipment...
...guys who write these prediction columns make a point of smearing their percentage of correct picks all over the column. Patent Trader's Ron Melancon does it, too. I like to think of myself as being a bit above such vanity. You don't have to keep pushing a figure in the reader's face for him to realize that you're a great...
Brand Collision. Finding names for all the products is becoming a major preoccupation. More than 370,000 trademarks are registered with the U.S. Patent Office, and the number is growing by 20,000 a year. Having all but exhausted the dictionary, marketers are increasingly turning to the computer to produce suitably short, evocative non-words. A typical computer printout (see above) reads: EMBO, EMBU, EMCA, EMCE...
PRINCETON-COLGATE: Didn't Yale beat Colgate? Yet Princeton has some injuries to worry about, and Scott MacBean may not play. Actually, the thought of this game bores me to death. And that's quite a statement from a person who found it exciting to write obituaries for the Patent Trader during the summer. But now that I've started, and since I've no knowledge to put here. I'll pick the Tigers, perhaps...
Since then, a master promoter has created instant antiquity on a 105-acre network of canals and quays. The canals evoke Venice; the squinched-together houses say Portofino, and the town hall is admittedly Mallorcan Municipal. Some find the pastiche unattractive-"A patent fraud," sniffs London's Sunday Observer, "the most magnificent fake since Disneyland." Nonsense, says Baroness Marie-Antoinette de la Paumeliere, who moved to Port Grimaud after 30 years at St. Tropez. "On its first birthday Port Grimaud already had a soul. This is the first time in my life that I've seen something...