Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WISCONSIN. A witty, flamboyant former college professor who won office in an upset four years ago, Lee Dreyfus, 55, decided not to run again even though he was the odds-on favorite for reelection. Dreyfus, whose trademark is a red vest, cited "personal reasons" and constant battles with the Democratic-controlled legislature for his departure from politics. Meanwhile, he promised to devote the final six months to "managing the state in tough economic times." Without Dreyfus in the race, Wisconsin seems ripe for a Democratic victory this year. Contending for the Democratic nomination are former State Legislator Anthony Earl...
...shops in Taiwan and Hong Kong, knock-offs of the bestselling Apple II Plus model are available for prices ranging down to $325, as compared with $1,530 for the genuine article in the U.S. A few of the bogus machines bear Apple Computer Inc.'s distinctive trademark, a multicolored apple with a bite missing. Others have slightly changed names like Apolo. Asian manufacturers have so successfully duplicated the silicon micro chips in the core of the Apple machines that the imitations can use a broad range of software, from VisiCalc, the top-selling business budgeting and planning program...
...boiled eggs in a bowl of oatmeal, and his left hand grabbing at the spot where his tie once hung. It's tough, as Rodney will tell you, it's tough. What's a guy to do when the Smithsonian asks for a donation of his trademark white shirt and red tie for its permanent collection in Washington, D.C.? "I was a little hesitant at first," says Dangerfield. "I only have two ties." The $5 cravat-identical to the one he wore for his first television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, 15 years...
...director feels confident he can handle Harvard's idiosyncratic alumni. "My trademark is the fact I can get along with everybody...
...eastern Caribbean region to $60 million this fiscal year from $25 million in fiscal 1981. Aides pointedly let reporters eavesdrop as Reagan warned his hosts that the tiny (pop. 108,000) island of Grenada, whose Prime Minister was not invited to the conference, "now bears the Soviet and Cuban trademark, which means that it will attempt to spread the virus [of Marxism] among its neighbors." Then the President got away to relax at the empty nine-room Barbadian villa of Paul Brandt, a furniture manufacturer from Fort Worth. (Colbert's home was too small...