Word: herring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Standard's demise underscores the challenges confronting the last few mainstream New Economy journals: Red Herring, Fast Company (bought last year by Gruner & Jahr), Wired and Business 2.0. Their ad slump is not as severe as the Standard's, but is still daunting (20%, 31%, 32% and 44% drops from January through July, respectively). But Fast Company and the Herring are older, more established magazines with lower costs, and Conde Nast's Wired and AOL Time Warner's Business 2.0 have potential subscription draws and advertising leverage from the many properties of their parents...
...Zionism is racism" is different. It's something of a red herring, coming as it does a decade after the repeal of the U.N. resolution condemning the Jewish nationalist ideology that drove the creation of modern Israel. The issue has been revived for the racism conference in order to build diplomatic support for the plight of the Palestinians, and even a number of human rights groups fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians under occupation have warned that it's an inappropriate discussion that could derail the conference's objectives. Of course, that doesn't get Israel...
...James Steyer, a children's advocate and another Stanford panelist, called political correctness "a red herring" and added that students should focus on Supreme Court decisions as well as political issues such as affirmative action...
...idea of "Vermeer and the Delft School" is a harmless red herring, a pretext for looking at Vermeer and a few lesser artists who happened to be around in the same town at the same time. There was no distinctive Delft school. In the 17th century the place harbored only one artist whose talents approached Vermeer's--the slightly older Pieter de Hooch (1629-84), who was originally from Rotterdam but worked in Delft for about five years in the 1650s. Vermeer and De Hooch had several things in common, the main one being that nothing at all is known...
Wildlife along the river has improved since the clean up efforts began. This past year, porpoises and dolphins were seen in the Boston harbor and herons and other waterfowl are increasingly seen along the river's banks. The EPA predicts a record herring run up the river in the next few weeks...