Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...swell time to be female. Girls today get to be strong or soft--they play with Barbies and bulldozers. Years of concern over the self-esteem of girls have resulted in a tide of aspiring Mia Hamms and Madeleine Albrights. But what happened to the boys? Why does the phrase "girl power" bring Hillary Clinton to mind, while "boy power" reminds us of Columbine...
...blue-collar cheese steaks this city is famous for. That fact was not lost on then-mayor Ed Rendell, who, when courting convention planners from both parties, took GOP bigwigs to Le Bec-Fin and dragged Dems to a hoagie joint. The proof, to use that worn gastronomical phrase, is in the pudding: The Dems took their party to the left coast, while Republicans cheerfully descended on this most Democratic of cities. Was it the food? What else...
...argument is that many problem drinkers can be helped with this approach - people who think the total abstinence route taken by Alcoholics Anonymous is (in the cagey phrase) "not for them...
...link George W. Bush's granting of a stay of execution with compassion for Ricky Nolen McGinn [NATION, June 12]? Bush has always been a man-eating tiger about Texas executions. Do we think a catchy campaign phrase can suddenly change his stripes? You didn't report that Barry Scheck offered to pay for a DNA test for McGinn, who was convicted of rape and murder. The fear of being caught with a wrong decision is what drives most politicians of any stripe. PHIL PARKINSON Rio Rancho...
...Last week the State Department dropped the phrase rogue nations. What replaced...