Word: tote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington wooed members of the Democratic site-selection committee with Bavarian souffles, designer tote bags with their names inscribed and a boat trip on the Potomac. Chicago courted them with an energetic mayor-elect and a bubbly champagne brunch. Detroit, with its high unemployment and strong unions, presented itself as an ideal backdrop for Democratic issues...
Organizers of big-time events have increasingly felt it necessary to embrace something cuddly, furry or feathery as their mascot-to be licensed for everything from tote bags and T shirts to coffee mugs and lobster bibs. The Moscow Olympics had a bear, the 1984 Los Angeles Games have a bald eagle, and for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, the city fathers of New Orleans picked a pelican. Last week the bird showed up at a Louisiana-sponsored State Department reception, to the amusement of Secretary of State George Shultz, 62. Perhaps his department needs a mascot too. How about...
While Colantuono must receive the most credit for lending the council a seriousness which previous student government meetings lacked, the vast majority of council members seem equally concerned with making a break with the past. Members tote copies of the constitution, which never made it across the doorstep of many rooms last spring. A number of House delegations are meeting together, sitting together and voting together. The 23 freshmen on the council have met informally as a group to catch up on Harvard's student government saga, and there is a drive to recognize them constitutionally. In sum, these signs...
...sunburst shining through the word SUN, the symbol that for almost a year has been appearing on oil drills and storage tanks, trucks and hard hats, check forms and stationery, as well as magazine and television advertising. Employees are beginning to display the sunburst on T shirts and tote bags, and SUN workers at a subsidiary in Dallas have sewed the logo on a flag that flies from their building...
...love, has become somewhat of a cult hero. Crowds, swelling outside the Newport courthouse as the proceedings dragged on, waited each day for the defendant to appear, cheering him wildly as he smiled and waved before ducking into his car. "Claus" t-shirts and buttons, as well as "Innocent" tote-bags became the rage for the "Free Claus...