Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Compared to a generation ago, nearly twice as many of today's twentysomethings--28%--agree "there is no single way to live." In this cohort, blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans assert their identity more than ever. And whites are more multicultural. Fair-haired dreadlocks are commonplace. Fashion designers knock off urban street trends rather than the other way around. Gay rights are assumed: the latest campus cause is discrimination against "transgendered persons." Body piercing has gone mainstream. As in the return of Hush Puppies and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xer chic is often retroeclectic. "Compared to any other...
...Want to fight oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Refuge? Set up booths to sell black snow cones. Want to protest the G.O.P.'s eco-bashing? Hang Newt Gingrich pinatas, provide a bat and whack for candy. To influence policy, call out the "dorm-storming" troops--activists who knock on college doors and urge students to E-mail their legislators. "We communicate in a different way," Werbach says. "We can sit here bemoaning Beavis and Butt-head, or we can learn from their appeal. A lot of people get all their news from MTV. We don't reach them...
...wallet do you need to knock the $100 billion-a-year local-telephone industry into a new shape? J. Shelby Bryan, 51, CEO of ICG Communications, Inc., of Englewood, Colo., is trying to find out. Bryan, a former Golden Gloves boxer as well as a banker, entrepreneur and corporate-turnaround artist, took charge of ICG, then known as IntelCom Group, in 1995. A good time to jump in, given the impending passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, which ordered the Baby Bell phone companies to end their monopolies of local service. Now Bryan is trying to outsprint other...
...this recantation--as unusual as it was--did not knock the struts out of the story entirely. Ceppos noted that Webb's reporting was "right on many important points." The series did, for example, establish a link between one of the most notorious L.A. drug dealers--"Freeway Rick" Ross--and Nicaraguan suppliers who were admitted supporters of the contras. And while strongly hinting at CIA knowledge of the drug connection, the story never explicitly made that claim...
When I hand in two papers today at 5 p.m. (knock on wood), I will have submitted a total of 138 pages of writing for classes this academic year. For each one of those pages, I'd estimate I spent about three hours reading, researching, outlining, writing and editing--a total of 414 hours, or 17 days, worth of work. And that's not even counting time for procrastination...