Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most part, hotels and airlines alike are scrambling to impress customers. "I saw this coming a long time ago and told my staff to prepare for it," says Steve Halliday, general manager of Singapore's 800-room Pan Pacific Hotel, which is located next to the convention center and caters mainly to business clients. Halliday recently outfitted the place with 200 computers to better serve his clients. "You've got to kill the customer with kindness," says Halliday. "In a word: service. Do things differently this year." In the current economic climate, the hospitality industry is finding that it takes...
...films. His mother looks just like Woody andasserts that, throughout his growing up, "You did alot of good things but you never pursuedthem"--this while three of his Oscars sit atop thebureau over her shoulder, and a filmmaking crewsits in her dining room following his movements.You can't impress everyone all the time, I guess...
...While such news is meant to impress the Big Five -- America, Russia, Britain, France and China -- it won't go down well in Islamabad, where Pakistan's parliament and cabinet are at loggerheads over whether to test their own device. "The Pakistanis are saying to the West: Try and stop us from doing this," says McGirk. Now that India has effectively broadcast its ability to wipe out their capital, stopping them just got a whole lot harder. Listen for more loud bangs soon...
...domestic political concerns make it unlikely that Clinton will muster the political will to turn up the heat on Israel, says Silver. The Israeli leader brings his battle with the White House to Washington this week, meeting with congressional leaders on Thursday. Bibi will find the legislators keen to impress pro-Israel voters -- Republicans were falling over each other yesterday in the rush to use the debacle as their own kind of stick with which to beat the administration...
...speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much sense anymore of the sheer weirdness of that fact. We are harder to shock or impress. It has been years since the woman called Madonna simulated masturbation on stage with a crucifix...