Word: trademarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a mysterious half-smile playing across his lips, a trademark red rose in his lapel and gaggles of young women clinging to his words, Trudeau often seemed more a rake than the philosopher-statesman he aspired to be. Still, the rake's progress was remarkable. The son of a Quebec millionaire, Trudeau had played the stylish dilettante who was occasionally known to ride motorcycles until a successful election bid carried him to Parliament in 1965. There such habits as occasionally wearing sandals to work and driving sports cars made Trudeau a darling of the media. When he called...
What all this was was the twelfth annual National Inventors Conference, sponsored by the Patent and Trademark Office, the National Council of Patent Law Associations, and the Bureau of National Affairs. It was held in one of those futuristic hotels-the Marriott Crystal Gateway-and in the Patent and Trademark building. Seventy of the nation's inventors paid $75 apiece to attend workshops (Inventing in Today's World, Funding a New Idea) and to take part in an exposition of inventions. A touching sidelight was a tour of the patent offices...
...brassy and absolutely clear singing inspired metaphors like "a chorus of taxi horns," but words never quite captured its unique qualities. Her trademark was the seemingly effortless ability to sustain a note so long that the orchestra could play phrase after phrase of the melody. Said the Merm: "I take a breath when I have to." What she called her "take-charge" manner was so unlike the spun sugar of other musical-comedy performers that composers shaped songs for her. Among the standards that still call her voice to memory are You're the Top from Anything Goes...
WHILE THE FILM BIDS farewell to a fading epoch, it also offers a glimpse of what lies ahead. The snooping newsreel journalist heralds the advent of the mass media, a trademark of the age. In one of the movie's most intriguing scenes, upon request, passengers perform arias for a troop of sweaty, soot-besodden stokers in the ship's bow, auguring the workingman's increasing visibility. And, of course, there...
...Chicago began making natural-flavor sodas in 1978, he decided that his family name would have a familiar ring to Windy City buyers. His great-uncle Frank was a mayor of Chicago in the 1930s and founder of a football team called the Corr Flashes. But by putting the trademark Corr's on bottles and cans, the soda maker uncapped the rivalry of another proud name: Coors...