Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sovereignty as a word has been a marketing trademark of the Parti Quebecois for 20 years because the word independence used to be somewhat frightening. I'm not going to change the logo. Does sovereignty have the same meaning ((today)) as independence? Of course it does...
...street like the two construction gangs completing the Union Pacific Railroad. The significance of this union was unclear, but all hell broke loose anyway. Both men were delighted with the media frenzy they had ignited. "Everything is perfect," intoned Jacques Barzaghi, Brown's spooky alter ego, clad in his trademark black beret...
Throughout the 10-week trial Gotti gave every indication that he still < believed in his own invincibility. He wore the trademark suits and helmet of hair like armor, as though his natty legend would protect him once again. Overflow crowds craned for a glimpse of him; the tabloids kept up a colorful commentary, not only on the testimony about loan-sharking, extortion and murder but also on his choice of neckwear and the fluff of his pocket handkerchief. In court he made mocking gestures, blew a kiss at lead prosecutor John Gleeson and growled loudly at U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney...
...Reverend Jesse L. Jackson began and endedhis speech with his trademark refrain, "Keep hopealive." In a passionately delivered speech,Jackson reaffirmed his pro-choice, pro-womenstance...
...KRONOS QUARTET that has long made musical purists uneasy. If it's not the musicians' a la mode fashion statements, it's their extravagantly eclectic repertoire: from George Crumb's nightmarish Black Angels to the artless tangos of Astor Piazzolla and Jimi Hendrix's protopsychedelic Purple Haze, their trademark encore. The group's latest Elektra Nonesuch CD, PIECES OF AFRICA, finds the Kronos wandering even farther afield. A potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown and white African composers, the music ranges from the irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother Nozipo) of Zimbabwean Dumisani Maraire...