Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next year the Harvard Board ofOverseers, which included future presidentFranklin D. Roosevelt, unanimously overruledLowell's exclusion of blacks from first-yeardorms. The reversal was intended, according to theBoard, as an appeal to the ideal of "equalopportunity for all, regardless of race orreligion...
...been mistaken in thinking the "vast right-wing conspiracy" mentioned by Hillary Clinton would have long-term appeal for Hobart. "If she had changed that to 'creepy little cabal,' I might have gone for it," he told me. "It's true that this wouldn't have got to the point of subpoenas without Richard Mellon Scaife and his fevered friends. But they didn't put Monica Lewinsky in the White House. Of course, the guy who recommended her, Walter Kaye, is a particular friend of Hillary Clinton's, but I never figured Hillary for the engineer of this. Wronged wife...
...preserving Social Security, the President accomplishes a policy coup: he does nothing while claiming to have ameliorated a major problem. Clinton will simply restore to its coffers the Same money that allowed him to proclaim a surplus. His mantra of "sav[ing] Social Security first" has widespread political appeal, says Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal, because "few Americans know how Social Security works...
...saddest thing about these labels that people give "Ally McBeal" is that the turn off potential viewers. Let's be honest: if a new show is commonly referred to as a "chick show" how many men would be interested? The show would have much more appeal if audiences and critics alike simply called it what it is, a hilarious new drama. Wouldn't you be more interested in a show labeled as such...
...never considering playing indoor and overseas didn't appeal to me, but with the new league coming [in 1996], I really wanted to play and that is something I look forward to doing," he said...