Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things happen, all of them bad. Money gets wasted. Officials get sloppy. Innocent people go to jail. And cases that should be won are lost. The specifics have become a martyrs' lament: Waco. Ruby Ridge. Filegate. Richard Jewell. By last Saturday, the embattled Freeh was ready to break his trademark silence in an interview with TIME. "They very regularly report the bumpy landings at National Airport. You rarely hear about the safe landings," he argues. "We do many, many good things every day. Children are saved, explosive devices are defused, pedophiles are arrested, gangs are taken off the streets...
...serendipity of the two celebrations seemed almost too good to be true. It was as if they were both orchestrated by a higher power, namely Nike. Indeed, the two most compelling commercials on that ESPN telecast were Nike productions that ended with its trademark swoosh: "Thank you, Jackie Robinson," in which African-American ballplayers expressed their gratitude to Robinson, and "I am Tiger Woods," in which children of all races say that mantra before heading out to the golf course...
...BOOKS. . . MASON & DIXON: Although there are similarities of length and his trademark narrative rhythm, Thomas Pynchon?s new novel (Henry Holt; 773 pages; $27.50) is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor, 'Gravity's Rainbow.' This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who tells aloud the tale of his one-time acquaintances Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night...
...trademark red folders given to pre-frosh by the Admissions Office contain lists of other activities. Highlights include the Pre-frosh Ice Cream Bash; an a cappella jam; Faculty panels; a speech by former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis; and a welcome by President Neil L. Rudenstine and Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson...
...divulging "trade secrets," and Gallo sued his own brother to prevent him from using the family name on a line of cheeses. "It's rare that you have the right combination of ego, money and enough at stake so that neither side is willing to compromise," says San Francisco trademark expert Melville Owen. "I don't think we'll see this kind of case again for 10 or 20 years...