Word: appealing
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...opposition is skeptical. "It's like having 1,000 people in a room with no air, and then throwing in a bottle of oxygen with enough for three or four people and saying work it out among yourselves," says Meier. The Darwinian culling of the banking sector has limited appeal to anyone except Moscow's oligarchs, who hope to salvage some of their wealth. Foreign bankers have little enthusiasm for the plan -- besides doubts over its efficacy, it's a nonstarter without another infusion of Western billions...
...writing for purposes of negotiating the terms of surrender. My second was to wonder exactly how much contrition he wanted, on a scale from Nixonian modified hangout to a full Jimmy Swaggart, from something suitable for family viewing to a blushing Playboy-channel disclosure. Hatch made a direct appeal to Clinton when he crossed paths with one of the President's spokesmen at NBC's green room in Washington. Hatch said he meant what he said, that he would do whatever he could to help the President if he would just come forward, stop the stonewalling...
When death-penalty supporters call for closure for murder victims' families and champion their right to see the bad guy fry, it's an appeal to feelings, not principles. When a married couple in counseling finally splits, grievances aired, tears shed and hugs hugged, the closure reached, however final, does not guarantee an equable divorce...
WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton hasn't done much to help his party lately, but he's trying. In an effort to get more Democrats counted in time for the 2000 elections, the administration will appeal to the Supreme Court a decision banning statistical sampling, a process that would account for the mostly low-income blacks and Hispanics -- traditionally Democratic voters -- who elude their friendly census-taker each decade...
...reach of either of these genres--happy-gay or sad-gay--is limited. They appeal to people who are open to gays and to modestly experimental films. Jenni Olson, whose PopcornQ website compiles data on gay and lesbian movies, warns against expecting one with Titanic or even Full Monty box office. "They can cross over to a straight art-house audience," she says. "We're not talking about an 'Oh, let's take the kids to a gay movie' crossover." The point isn't that everyone needs to see these films. It is that "out" films are finally and fully...