Word: trademarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasional inarticulateness, mitigated by only a touch of the bemused self-awareness that was part of the wit and style of his late uncle the President. But the Kennedy trait that carries Joe is the physical charisma and boundless (albeit often unfocused) energy that have become a family trademark...
...downright hostile when the company's executives saw the logo for Columbia Pictures' 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters. The logo featured a cartoon ghost behind the symbol for prohibition, a red circle with a bar across its center. Two years ago, Harvey filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The company claimed that the logo copied a Harvey cartoon character named Fatso, one of a trio of ghosts that taunt Casper...
...single, inflexible political principle: the right of the individual to be left alone, to be free from the intrusions of government. Once branded as a scary ultraconservative, Goldwater spent much of his time in the American political wilderness. But by the end, the outspoken, silver-haired Senator with the trademark black-rimmed glasses found that the country had moved sufficiently toward him and that he was in the center of the Republican Party...
...stressed the practical and financial side of film-making. The Oscar for Rocky was nice, but better than that, "it afforded me four flops." The films he made after Rocky--Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978), The Formula (1980), Neighbors (1981) and A Night in Heaven(1983)-- were trademark Avildsen: competent, unthreatening, inexpensive. Like the director's first hit, 1970s hippie-bashing Joe, each was in tune with its time, picking up on common wisdom and simply laying...
...Gale gave U.S. Steel a list of possible new names for the steel conglomerate, including USX, Maxus and Amcor. USX was chosen before the manufacturer discovered that the name had already been adopted by USX Telecenters, a California-based distributor of telephone systems, which subsequently filed a $50 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against the steel company. After Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth in July 1985, Lippincott & Margulies, a New York City-based firm, came up with the name Enteron. As it happened, enteron is another word for the human digestive system. Randal Blauvelt, a spokesman for the new company...