Word: appealling
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...didn't try. They had a different personality, drawn with the brute simplicity of a police artist's pencil. They were the skungiest bunch of biker types and overfed beef this side of Meat Loaf. In this high-priced age of media sports, a team has to have sex appeal, charisma and watchability, and the Phillies fill the bill. If the phrase ''winning ugly'' had a face, it would belong to left fielder Pete Incaviglia, who thunders toward a pop fly and doesn't catch it so much as consume it. If ugly had an attitude, it would belong...
...plans to spin + off cable systems that it owns in Bell Atlantic's territory, even though the Baby Bell won a federal-court ruling in Virginia last summer that allows it to send movies over its telephone lines there. (The Justice Department said last week that it will appeal the decision.) Meanwhile, the Clinton Administration's policy toward megamergers remains uncertain. James Quello, the Bush-appointed acting chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, greeted the proposed consolidation as ''the most momentous deal of the decade.'' Quello is scheduled to be replaced by Reed Hundt, a Washington lawyer and childhood friend...
...followed by investigation and then the prosecution, none of which are in the hands of a medical board. A physician thought to be incompetent must be accorded full protection of the law and can be punished only after a fair hearing, to which can be added the right of appeal. This is as it should be, but it takes time. Rather than direct criticism toward what is perceived as a protective-guild mentality among doctors, turn the attack on those who are in control of the investigation. At the present time, the medical profession occupies the uncomfortable seat of being...
...months ago that the President first tried to persuade Congress to grant $100 million in military and humanitarian aid to the contras, Nicaragua's rebel forces. Reagan went on an intense, high-profile campaign complete with apocalyptic speeches warning of a Communist takeover of the Americas and a televised appeal to the nation. In the end, the House voted against him. This time around, as Reagan takes another crack at winning approval for his package, he has adopted a more low-key approach, tending to rally support behind closed doors. Yet already the public charges, by both friends and foes...
...Obama's promises appeal to Afghans who have long complained that their country was forgotten when the US went to war in Iraq. His speech was broadcast on local television, and as in the US, many here see him as the candidate for change. "He looks young and active," says carpet seller Abdul Saboor, 56. "Bush has made too many mistakes in Afghanistan, so if Obama can change the policy it is good for America and good for us." Saboor is acutely aware of the problems insecurity have brought to his country; his carpet shop, which used to be next...