Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Harland Sanders, 90, the goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white suits and black string ties to sell franchised eateries serving chicken parts laced with a secret blend of herbs and spices and pressure-cooked for 12 min. In 1964 he sold the business for $2 million to Nashville Businessmen Jack Massey and John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky...
...only made Amos famous, but it has made his bakery a $250 million-a-year enterprise in fewer than six years. And now the Smithsonian Institution has added some frosting by representing Amos in its business Americana collection. In a Washington, D.C., ceremony, Amos formally gave the Smithsonian his trademark Panama hat and embroidered shirt, thus becoming the first entrepreneur to lose his shirt because he was in the chips...
There is a definite, if complex, forensic weave that links the murders, and police are certain that the latest one was the work of the Yorkshire ripper. Like most earlier victims, Hill was killed by a specific pattern of multiple injuries that are the trademark of the unknown killer. Morever, this murder, like the twelve before it, occurred within the so-called triangle of terror that includes Leeds and Bradford in West Yorkshire and Manchester in adjacent Lancashire in northern England...
Dior spends $380,000 a year policing its 313 trademarks and employs a staff of three to work solely on counterfeiting problems. Among other odd missions, they once had to stop a Brooklyn pet shop from marketing Christian Dior T shirts for with-it canines. The Rome-based Gucci chain, which has opened 17 specialty shops in eight countries, has offices in Italy, Britain and the U.S. that deal only with trademark protection. At present, the firm's biggest peeve is a string of five false stores in Argentina; they operate under names like Luigi Gucci and Guglielmo Gucci...
Defense has always been a New Haven trademark and 1980 has proved no exception. Despite a plague of late-season injuries threatening to disrupt the unit, the Bulldogs remain one of the stingiest teams in the nation when their opponents have the ball. Near the top of the country's teams in defensing the rush, second in the ECAC (behind Navy) in scoring defense and always best with their backs against the wall, the men of the "Monster" defense, as their co-ordinator, Buddy Amendola, says, "likes to make things happen...