Word: touted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local brokerage of Piper Jaffray that came on heavy-card stock paper. They offered a government bond fund that seemed the perfect place to invest the $50,000 Stasch's 86-year-old widowed mother had made after selling her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Not only did Piper tout the triple-A-rated fund as a low-risk investment, but also said it would produce enough income -- $318 a month -- to pay her mother's rent. "I told Mom, 'This is your decision, but I'm comfortable with it,"' Stasch recalls...
That has not stopped le tout Washington from expressing views on Carter's return engagement. Negative and positive, it has all been said before. He is a softy who cuddles dictators. Or he is a tireless crusader for peace who has devoted his post-presidential career to resolving some of the thorniest international conflicts. Or a proud figure consumed by the desire to live down his 1980 election defeat and win the Nobel Peace Prize many feel he should have received in 1978 for mediating the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David accords...
...three candidates are expressing confidence. Barrett aides tout the strength of a $370,000 television campaign launched last week...
...weeks ago, at a Las Vegas video convention, Jeffrey Katzenberg, chieftain of the Disney movie jungle, was joined onstage by an adult lion to tout The Lion King, the most successful film in the company's history. Suddenly the beast wrapped its paw around Katzenberg's thigh. The audience gasped, the trainer scrambled, and the wiry mogul wriggled free, raising his arms in victory...
...over and force them to vote against it again and again. Let's see how eager they are to be tagged soft on crime." Clever politics? Maybe. Good policy? Hardly. There's still time to do it right, still time to pass a bill the President can finally accurately tout as the "biggest, toughest and smartest" ever...