Word: trademarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense has traditionally been the Crimson's trademark, and yesterday Harvard made sure Connecticut's top guns were held in check...
...measuring quarterbacks, Miami's Dan Marino has just dislodged Montana as the highest rated in history, followed at a distance by Hall of Famers Roger Staubach and Sonny Jurgensen. Montana unhinged himself in the opening game of his eighth season, throwing in one direction while running in another, his trademark. He was something to see, and to hope to see again...
Aquino saved her most impressive performance for a speech before a joint session of Congress, whose members greeted her wearing yellow ties and tossing yellow roses flown in specially from Texas; the color has become Aquino's trademark. She defended her policy of reconciliation with the Philippines' Communist insurgents and asked Congress for more financial aid to rebuild the Philippines' shattered economy. "You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it," said Aquino. "And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help...
...prison can be hard on a man, and when Gotti finally appeared last week in Brooklyn Federal Court, the "Dapper Don" of the tabloids showed signs of fashion fatigue. No tie. No tan. His graying hair no longer meticulously styled. Only a starched white pocket handkerchief, practically a Gotti trademark, hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom...
Last year the shirt saga came full circle. Polo/Ralph Lauren discovered that a Buenos Aires haberdasher, Alberto Vannucci, was selling shirts with a polo-player logo. The firm fired off a letter to Vannucci accusing him of copying its trademark. The clothier replied that his logo, which depicts a polo player from a different angle than Lauren's does, was designed in 1920 by none other than Lewis Lacey. Polo/Ralph Lauren nonetheless filed suit in Buenos Aires, charging Vannucci with trademark similarity. The case is still in court...