Word: tags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...About four years ago, I used to live in the East Village. I used to love hanging out at the Roxy with all the break dancers and graffiti artists and the deejays. Everybody had a tag name they would write on the wall like "Whiz Kid" or "Hi-Fi." The thing was to see how much you could "throw up" (get your name up) everywhere. It was a very territorial thing. One day I just thought of BOY TOY, and when I threw it up on a wall, everybody said they thought it was funny too. They understood the humor...
Jane McHugh has earned the tag "Tact and Decorum", or "T&D" for short. "Jane has a habit of saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time--in a cute way," Wilson explains...
...million on the machine. Commodore lost $20.8 million in the first three months of this year, partly because it reduced the basic price of its model 64 by 25%, to $145. And even IBM two months ago halted production of the PCjr, which had sold poorly with its price tag...
...shouts and screams are over. Murdoch and Davis agreed last week to buy the nation's largest independent television archipelago, with stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Dallas, Houston and Boston. The price tag is $2 billion, making the acquisition the second largest in broadcasting history. (First place belongs to the $3.5 billion takeover of ABC by Capital Cities Communications in March.) The new owners will immediately sell Metromedia's Boston outlet, WCVB-TV, to the Hearst Corp. for $450 million. Murdoch and Davis will end up with six stations that reach one out of every / five...
...taste change adds an entirely new dimension to Coke's 87-year-old cola war with Pepsi. Until now, the Coke-Pepsi battle has been one largely of words in some of Madison Avenue's best and most memorable advertising. Currently the tag line "Coke is It!" is arrayed against "Pepsi. Choice of a New Generation." About five years ago, when the price of cane sugar went up sharply, Coke began shifting its basic sweetening ingredient to high-fructose corn syrup. Pepsi switched completely to the corn syrup sweetener this year. But the parts of each drink's formula that...