Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...front windows of Motown Records' Detroit headquarters was a sign that read "Hitsville U.S.A." Placed there by Motown founder Berry Gordy soon after his company moved into the modest home at 2648 W. Grand Blvd, the sign demonstrated Gordy's blazing - and at the time, unearned - arrogance. Then the slogan came true...
...Mills & Boon will release one rugby-inspired novel each month as part of its "International Billionaires" series, which it advertises with the slogan, "Life is a game of power and pleasure. And these men play to win!" All details pertaining to rugby-related matters - from the inside of a locker room to the typical day of a p.r. woman at Twickenham - were fact-checked with the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the body that governs the sport in England...
...quitters and abstainers from their New Year's resolutions. You could also call it the "f___ it" effect, the idea that once you cheat, you've blown it, so you might as well binge. In traditional 12-step programs for addiction, that line of thinking is encapsulated in the slogan "A drink equals a drunk." But understanding and overcoming AVE, says Marlatt, is crucial to conquering a problem behavior or dependency in the long term. You have to know what to do when you fall off the wagon to learn how to stay on it. (See the top 10 food...
...tyranny of time, no to the merciless onslaught of the calendar, and yes to staying put in 2008," says a man who identifies himself as Marie-Gabriel, a militant member of the Fonacon group, which is organizing its fourth annual anti-New Year protest under the slogan "2009 Stays In Its Shell." "Last year we warned a mocking world that 2008 would be horrible compared to 2007, and we were right. This time everyone acknowledges 2009 will be terrible, so now is the moment to unite together and refuse this new, rotten year!" (Read TIME's top 10 oddball news...
America's fantasyland probably won't come back fully until the rest of the country recovers. Indeed, the economic hard times have only proved that the town's famous slogan - "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" - needs some tweaking. Now, it appears, what happens in America doesn't stay out of Vegas for very long...