Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since Charlie Chaplin battled a rambunctious Murphy bed, the fold-up sleeper has been an American icon. In New York City last week, a federal appeals court showed just how firmly the name is embedded in popular lore when it ruled that "Murphy bed" has become a generic term and therefore is not subject to trademark protection...
...Amityville, N.Y. The firm claimed that a former Murphy distributor had illegally called his product the "original" Murphy bed. The appeals court ordered the distributor to pay damages for competing unfairly and violating an agreement to stop using the word original. But the judges held that the term Murphy bed can be used by any manufacturer...
...have a brother married to Congressman Jim Wright's daughter. Mack was arrested and pleaded guilty to malicious wounding with intent to kill, saying stress made him do it. Mack was offered a job by Wright after sentencing, and ended up serving 27 months of a 15-year term in the relatively soft confines of the county jail rather than the state penitentiary...
Bush is "firm in his belief that a new President shouldn't go off half- cocked," says a senior White House aide. "He has repeatedly said, 'I'm not going to make one of those big early-term mistakes like the Bay of Pigs.' " Yet faced with a political upheaval in the Soviet Union and its spillover in Europe, Bush seems almost recklessly timid, unwilling to respond with the imagination and articulation that the situation requires. "He is supposed to lead, but he is not even really trying yet," complains a British diplomat...
...passable English but hardly a syllable of French. So it was no slip of the tongue when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...