Word: weeklong
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...rights worker who was named to the job last November, has thus far been getting more huzzahs than heat. She basked in the glory of PBS's huge success of September, The Civil War. (The program was set in motion long before she arrived, but Lawson approved its unusual weeklong scheduling.) She has won praise for boosting PBS's profile with such ploys as running ads on the commercial networks. Most of all, she has tamed the ornery PBS bureaucracy with a mix of calm decisiveness and careful diplomacy. "In some ways Jennifer is the only person who could have...
...June 23 deadline loomed, three provincial governments balked at ratification. Mulroney waited until the final weeks before the deadline to call the ten provincial premiers to Ottawa for a weeklong marathon of closed- door constitutional bargaining to win the dissidents over. The political leaders emerged with the original Meech Lake agreement unchanged. What broke the standoff was an agreement to seek reform -- or at least reapportionment -- for Canada's appointed Senate, which underrepresents the west. The ministers further committed themselves to discuss aboriginal self-government, minority-language rights and guarantees of sexual equality...
...partners have expanded their services to include weeklong individual beauty-counseling sessions (fee: $6,000) for women of all ages. They will introduce a line of Guyrex gowns this month, to be followed by a self-help video. But success has had its pitfalls. The pair, who complain of sniping by envious rivals, recently lost their Miss California Teen-USA franchise when the agreement came up for renewal. They retaliated with a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the parent firm, Miss Universe Inc. The company denies any ill intent toward the two. But Holt wonders, "Was it jealousy? There...
...only are all the sachems of the nation's football tribes, living and dead, on hand for the Super Bowl, but bull corpocrats, not-yet indicted politicians and assorted overweeners from every power nexus in the nation have massed here, drawn to sport's most relentless weeklong party by forces they do not understand. They wear suits that are the worsted equivalent of stretch limos. Around these grandees, trophy wives orbit glossily. Some of them know the names of the teams ("The Denver, uh, Cowboys?"). Lacquered geishas trucked in for the occasion balance vaselike on bar stools...