Word: clue
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...brand. You just had no idea what the brand did. ("ProtoLink: the Enterprise Solution for Internet Strategy. Because the future is where decisions will be made.") And throughout the year there were more and more of those ads for prescription drugs that didn't supply the smallest clue to what disease the miracle drug was supposed to cure. ("Sue, have you tried Protozip? It sure worked for me!" "No, Donna, I haven't, but I'm going to call my doctor today and ask for Protozip." Announcer: "Protozip should not be used by pregnant women or anyone who wears button...
...about creative legal arguments," he said at one point. "It's not about creative economic arguments. It is about common sense. It is about facts, and it is about what the real world demonstrates." No matter how well you know Boies, these words, the phrasing, the syntax, give no clue to the setting where he is speaking. In court and out, he speaks a brand of English so simple and direct that he sounds like the high school teacher he once thought he would become. It's the way Boies speaks when addressing a judge, the way he speaks...
...core business because some other division didn't make its numbers, there's going to be trouble," says an executive. "If top people like Logan, [Jeff] Bewkes, [CEO of HBO] or Terry McGuirk [CEO of TBS] throw their hands up and leave, the AOL people won't have a clue how to fill those jobs...
...that his father chose as a profitable base in the ?50s and ?60s. Except for his sojourns at Yale and northeastern prep schools, the George W. taste is drawn from unapologetic Texan sensibilities. There?s a certain swagger. Think Connecticut meets ?Dallas? meets ?Dynasty? and you?ll have a clue what to expect...
After the Clintons? embrace of Hollywood, movies are in for a rougher time. Bill Clinton may have endorsed such gritty films as ?Sling Blade? and ?Dead Man Walking,? but Bush has different tastes. A clue? His favorite book and TV movie of all time is ?Lonesome Dove.? Consequently we will no longer see White House events attended by a procession of faces - Streisand, Spielberg, Cruise and Hanks - familiar from ?Entertainment Tonight...