Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than the chief of state of the country, Oswaldo Lopez Arellano. The bribe was offered in order to win a reduction in a 500 export tax on every 40-lb. box of the bananas that United Brands grows in Honduras and sells in the U.S., mostly under the "Chiquita" trademark. The company's statement said that Black had authorized the bribe and another of equal size that was to have been paid later. The payments were made by foreign subsidiaries of United Brands, whose books had been falsified to conceal the transactions. United Brands maintained that it had disclosed...
Fatal Beating. Clark, wearing his trademark narrow tie, appeared to have the easier defense. His client, Pernasilice, was accused of joining in the fatal beating of Quinn, yet only one man claimed to have witnessed Pernasilice in the act. Former Inmate Edward Zimmer said he saw Pernasilice strike Quinn over the shoulders with a stick; doctors who examined Quinn found no injuries in that area. In the closing days of the trial, the judge dismissed the murder charge against Pernasilice, but let stand a second for attempted murder. This did not satisfy Clark. The former U.S. Attorney General declared...
...Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around, her trademark has become the revival of obscure operas of the 19th century bel canto...
...only the start. The newly "encountered" husbands and wives have been instructed that each day for the rest of their lives they must take ten minutes to write "love letters" to each other and ten minutes to "dialogue" about them. This is "10 & 10," the movement's trademark. They are also urged to attend follow-up meetings and spread the word to friends...
...career cannot be hung on a set of threads. No longer a silent partner in making decisions about her career, she spends her waking hours in conferences, writing sessions (she pays particular attention to her opening and closing monologues), costume fittings (no small matter when wardrobe is your basic trademark). Finally come the run-throughs and full rehearsals, climaxed by the two twelve-to-14-hour days required to tape the show. Cher is doing what Sonny used to do for both of them, and some new things besides. Says Producer George Schlatter: "She's stretching, stretching, stretching...