Word: ruling
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...case is singular. She never needed to change, she never needed to evolve. Every Mariah Carey record is the same. Every Whitney Houston record is the same. Every Britney Spears record will be the same. But Madonna cannot stand repetition. Repetition is boring, repetition engenders complacency, complacency ensures the rule of "kiddie pop" and bands like 98 Degrees. Madonna abhors these bubblegum pop queens simply because she hates their laziness and their casual desecration of all the values she's held sacred in her musical career--after all, Britney and Christina Aguilera say that Madonna "inspired" them. But to Madonna...
...relations between Beijing and Washington. The Senate's ratification Tuesday of permanent normal trading-partner status for China "will dim the role of government in people's daily lives and strengthen those within China to fight for higher labor standards, a cleaner environment, for human rights, for rule of law," gushed President Clinton. But anyone who's been paying attention to conditions in China over the past couple of years won't be holding their breath...
...name of Chris Jericho would they get rid of the fair catch rule? The rule is in place to prevent people from becoming paralyzed, for crying out loud...
...returner gets nailed and lies lifeless on the turf, are we supposed to moan or cheer? Will the XFL on NBC commentators say things like, "Whoo! The Hitmen sure took that guy out! I'm thinkin' he's done from the waist down, at least! Glad we ditched that rule...
...list of Firestone failures goes on and on: it waited nearly a week to advertise the recall and balked at reimbursing customers for replacing Firestone's with rivals' tires; it broke another cardinal rule by failing to own up from the start to all it knows. Just like fast-food chain Jack in the Box, which initially blamed its meat supplier for the deadly outbreak of E. coli in its hamburgers in 1993, Firestone has continued to point fingers, either at Ford for recommending a lower tire pressure or at drivers for not maintaining the tires properly...