Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American companies sell their subsidiaries, they often arrange to supply their parts or products to the new owners. According to Massachusetts- based Mitchell Investment Management, more than 35% of the 106 U.S. ! subsidiaries sold in the past 17 months continue to sell their goods through licensing, distribution, franchising or trademark agreements. Firms can find the new way of doing business more profitable: running a subsidiary involves paying expenses for plant and equipment, while licensing arrangements do not. Some critics of apartheid, though, criticize companies for continuing to sell their products after divestiture. Says Marcy Murninghan, president of the social investment...
...four hours of sleep and a day spent thanking campaign workers and consulting with colleagues, Margaret Thatcher welcomed TIME London Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden and Reporter Frank Melville upstairs at No. 10 Downing Street to talk about her plans for a third term. Wearing a blue suit and her trademark double strand of pearls, she sat at a small table in an oak-paneled room. Behind her were congratulatory baskets of flowers. Excerpts from the interview...
...clincher: "And these are not someone else's children. They are our children. ((Applause begins.)) America's children. ((More applause.)) Blood of our blood. ((A louder ripple.)) Heart of our soul." This was Biden at his best, the impassioned idealist displaying the soaring rhetoric that has become his trademark...
...week engagement at Michael's Pub in Manhattan for an appreciative SRO crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist Carmen McRae and Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The jazz legend still wails on his trademark bent-up horn, because, he says, "you hear the sound quicker. I never blow straight at anybody unless it's an angel up in the heavens...
...quite fair to leave a family sitting out there ((when)) you obviously have the possibility of assuring a little more comfort than I have done so far." One sign that Volcker was ready to make major changes in his life-style came March 18: he gave up his trademark 28 cents Antonio y Cleopatra cigars because both his wife and a close friend had stopped smoking...