Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Their cowardly nighttime destruction of a few anti-apartheid shacks on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and their ultimately successful attempts to hound music professor William Cole out of the college catapulted them to national attention, but these acts of thuggery are emblematic of their entire approach to journalism...
...fancy word for this approach to a mean, messy world is "unilateralism" -- Uncle Sam as global...
...estimated losses in the larger states running to hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of these inequities could be fine-tuned out of the plan later, but the fact remains that, after weeks of heated negotiations, the bipartisan summiteers who put the deal together were unable to find another approach that was politically feasible. The onus is on those who criticize their work to show exactly how they would do a better job of reducing the deficit without resorting to the phony figures and rosy forecasts they're accustomed to using...
Taxin said the meetings were originally intended to "indoctrinate" council representatives in an effort to gain votes. But he added that he soon shifted the focus of the meetings because he thought an informational approach would be more useful to first-year representatives...
Matsushita faces another challenge, which is the difficulty of blending its conservative corporate culture with MCA's Hollywood approach. The clash was less pronounced for Sony, which is considered more worldly and innovative. As did Sony, Matsushita is paying for the services of a Hollywood matchmaker, superagent Michael Ovitz of Creative Artists Agency, who is acting as middleman...