Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million, four-year overhaul of the decrepit buildings begun last summer has made it difficult for most students to remember living, sleeping and studying without certain disruptions. For nearly half of this year scaffolds wrapped the exteriors of several river buildings and annoying construction noise became a morning trademark. Cranes and workmen were as common in House life as tutors and House committees...
...will forget Allard's finest hour--his brilliant dismantling of Yale in the most lopsided Game in history. And fewer still will forget the infamous slapshot from the blue line--the Fusco trademark that in four years brought the men's hockey squad from the depths of despair and into national prominence...
Such heresy is the trademark of the genial Ornstein. He listens patiently to the endless yammering of the special interests and the experts, then gently suggests that they step back and look at the forest instead of their own imperfect tree. "James Madison [the Federalist) would be pleased if he were here," declares Ornstein. "The best features of the checks and balances are in play. We are not being dominated by sets of insidious special interests. We are arriving at a set of centrist and sensible policies...
Neatness is another Pepper trademark. He wears a fresh suit, usually with vest, every day. His sparse white hair (he stopped wearing a toupee in 1980 after it blew off as he greeted President Jimmy Carter at the Miami Airport) is carefully combed. Presiding at a recent House Rules Committee hearing, he leaned back, motioned to an aide and whispered in his ear. The aide rushed to straighten a portrait on a side wall. Pepper nodded his approval...
...Orwellian, Koch and his ever-faithful handmaidens on the editorial board of The New York Times continue to argue that the appointment should be based on "merit and not ethnicity." To some, it represents yet another example of the cheerful politics of polarization which continue to be Koch's trademark...