Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...they were fueled to some degree by resentment of Sununu's strong-arm tactics, which some Republicans derided as "all stick and no carrot." The Democrats had no more success in keeping their members in line. At a White House meeting, Bush and Foley agreed that the Speaker could offer the Democratic majority a carrot: assurances that the most objectionable details in the plan could be changed in the next two weeks, before the final legislation was to be passed. Foley took this word to the Democratic caucus, along with a strong warning: if Democrats were seen as killers...
...both categories remain eternally attractive to publishers, if only because they offer the potential for a targeted, cohesive audience to suit particular kinds of advertisers. Thus half a dozen well-financed rivals of the traditional men's magazines have arrived or are poised to enter the fray, even at a time when all publications are hard pressed to hold on to advertisers. Warns Charles Elbaum, president of Publishing Economics, a media consulting firm: "The pie has been sliced too many times for them all to survive...
...with a description of their attire. Truman thinks his focus is broader: "Style is what you wear to work and also Nelson Mandela walking out of jail. It's stylish to be interested in the world." The magazine, published by the Newhouse empire, which also owns GQ, purports to offer some hard-hitting pieces. But Doug Vaughan's story about rooting through the confiscated files of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega breaks little news beyond some eye-popping Visa-card bills. Maura Sheehy's portrait of Fox TV as the "ninja" fourth network is hyped with adrenal adjectives and metaphors...
Standout illustration: George Bush's speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week. The President tried to send contrasting messages to two groups of allies. To relative soft-liners (France, the Soviet Union, several Arab states), he wanted to demonstrate that he was trying his best to offer Saddam Hussein a face-saving way to withdraw from Kuwait. That might also serve eventually to win more support for future military action against Iraq; the President would be able to argue that he had first exhausted all possibilities for a peaceful solution. Simultaneously, though, Bush wanted to tell hard-liners...
...then that I realized that an era of my life had ended. This comment wasn't something silly, like a friend's offer to apply suntan lotion to my scalp at the beach. This was my trusted hair care professional honestly telling me that I have a real hair-related problem. My barber had said the b-word, and it changed me forever...