Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Some aficionados are concerned that the search for exotic breads may be getting out of hand. Says Bernard Clayton, author of The New Complete Book of Breads: "Thank goodness there are good breads today, but there are some things out there that are horrifying." An understandable sentiment, given the emergence of such bizarre products as seaweed bread, cottage-cheese dill loaves and a cherry-chocolate concoction that sells for a thumping $10 a loaf...
...Since sentiment in the state legislature is running strongly toward banning such weaponry, Borges plans to examine Colt's gun. If it is deemed an assault weapon, he plans to block its production. "I will exercise every option available as a significant shareholder," says he. "Assault rifles for civilian consumers have no place...
...global-warming conference set up by the White House. The Administration had hoped to get a debate going on the uncertainties of the greenhouse effect. Instead, most of the delegates appeared to agree that the global-warming threat is real and potentially serious. In the face of this strong sentiment, President Bush denied that he was taking global warming too lightly. The President reconfirmed a U.S. pledge to cooperate in a United Nations effort to forge an international agreement on dealing with climate change...
Certainly demonstrations and mass events have an honored role in history. Sheer, chanting force of numbers has served notice to dictators from Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania that their time was up. Back in 1970, activists capitalized on an outpouring of environmental sentiment during the first Earth Day to unseat seven of a targeted "dirty dozen" politicians and spur the passage of clean-air-and-water legislation. Today Eastern Europe, perhaps the grimiest industrial region on earth, could use Earth Day to focus newly aroused democratic forces on their poisoned air and land. So could...
...outcry has prompted a growing sentiment in Congress to curb the advertising of legal vices. Legislators are working on 72 separate bills concerning tobacco products, while another flurry of proposals would impose new restrictions on beer, wine and spirits. Since last November federal law has required warning labels on all containers of alcoholic beverages sold in the U.S. Expanding on that approach, legislation sponsored by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee and Representative Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts would require spoken health warnings in all TV and radio ads for beer and wine, including toll-free telephone numbers that would provide callers...