Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many different pasts. Reaching as far back as the walled-in ghettoes of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages and as far away as the countryside of feudal Japan, the history of ethnic America unfolds not only on the American landscape, but on all the continents of the world. Scotch-Irish pioneers settled the mountainous regions of Appalachia, while freed Black slaves migrated to the cities of the Northeast. Turn-of-the-century immigrants turned New York into the largest Jewish metropolis that culture has ever known; Japanese farmers transformed the valleys of California into the most prolific fruit-producing...
...squashed shipment of watches represents no more than a fraction of the counterfeit goods that move in international trade every day. Counterfeits are a problem for such other well-known brand-name products as Levi Strauss blue jeans, Puma running shoes, and Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky. Cartier's hope is that the steamroller tactics will help encourage governments around the world to take whatever steps are necessary to crush the counterfeiters...
...season, you've realized Dartmouth takes this whole thing a lot more seriously than we do. Harvard students like to beat Brown because Brown thinks it's as good, Princeton because Princeton acts like it's better, and Yale because that snotty kid down the street who always had scotch tape holding his big, black glasses together and built go-carts out of lego in third grade goes there. And only for Yale--if then--does Harvard go bonkers...
There are three North Carolinas. The coastal east runs flat and sandy; the Blue Ridge west rises velvety and mountainous. Most populous is the middle Piedmont, a plateau of gentle undulations and pine forests. Scotch-Irish settlers swept onto the Piedmont in 1736. Six years later, two Helms brothers, George and Tillman, were farming on a plot deep in the colony. Before long, there were Helmses all over the place. On the solitary road from Wadesboro to Charlotte, just as the piny hills begin puckering up, grew Union County and the town of Monroe...
...Stamford, Conn., for a midnight meeting with Conoco Chairman Ralph Bailey in that company's boardroom rotunda. Just after 1 a.m. the two weary, rumpled chief executives settled final details, sealed the agreement with a handshake and retired to Bailey's office for a round of Scotch and bourbon. Du Pont was paying some $7 billion in cash and stock for Conoco. The union could form the seventh largest industrial enterprise in the U.S., ranking just behind the Ford Motor...