Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore. Bradley says his long silence was not so much about snubs as about soul-searching. And his staff believes his ruminations will help him find ways to inspire voters--people who don't belong to the party machine, regular people who can see past the thrumming economy, who aren't feeling rosy. It's an unusual, even heretical tactic...
City councilwoman Deeda Seed sees corruption, not humanitarianism, in the S.L.O.C.'s behavior. "They basically operated in secret, in executive sessions. Where were the tough questions that should have been asked? We're a very naive place," she says. "Things went wrong because in our cultural orientation, hard questions aren't asked about accountability. It's impolite...
...into an Ivy League college by dint of her family's willingness to fork over 10 grand to an SAT prep course could result in a child with somewhere between a dose and a half and 2 1/2 doses of pushy-parents genes. Apparently the egg seekers aren't troubled by the prospect of having their grandchildren raised by this sort of person...
...long-distance rates still aren't cheap enough for you, listen up--to the advertisement playing on the telephone. Last week BroadPoint Communications introduced a service that gives consumers as much as two minutes of free long distance for every 10-to-15-sec. targeted ad they hear. Already 40,000 callers have surfed to www.broadpoint.com to fill out a detailed questionnaire and obtain a PIN for the 800 service, known as FreeWay. Of course, with long-distance rates already as low as 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute, listening to yet another Blockbuster or T.G.I. Friday's pitch...
...caustic poetry of Nirvana, the righteous snarl of Rancid and the amiable snottiness of Green Day. In its new album the Offspring attempts to make a virtue of its creative limitations: the songs on Americana are basic and direct, and a few of the tracks, including The Kids Aren't Alright, have a brutal appeal. But the band's weakness for cheap laughs soon grows tiresome--there's even a punk-rock parody of the easily mocked standard Feelings. For a group that revels in attacking the emptiness of contemporary culture, it has made a pretty empty-headed album...