Word: blandly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Post's plight was the latest skirmish in the prolonged battle for survival in New York City's fiercely competitive newspaper market, increasingly an oddity in the era of one-paper monopolies and bland corporate chains. Four papers -- the broadsheet New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) and three tabloids, the Post (504,000), the New York Daily News (1.2 million) and New York Newsday (230,000) -- managed to make it through the booming 1980s. But now the city's economy is in a tailspin, and the tabloids are being dragged down with it. "I don't think there's room...
...Blanchard faced complaints of age and sex discrimination in his treatment of Griffiths, his major Republican opponent, state senate majority leader John Engler, seized the opening to announce that his running mate will be Connie Binsfeld, 66, a bland state senator and antiabortion activist. Blanchard countered by selecting Olivia Maynard, 54, who has been popular with senior citizens as director of the state office of services to the aging, to replace Griffiths. Ever loyal to her party, Griffiths said she will support / Blanchard's re-election. And, presumably, she will continue to inquire about his health...
...Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, David M. Gross, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Andrea...
Perhaps not by Wexler, but certainly by Frederick Barthelme's latest poke at the pale-faced middle class. Barthelme has a laconic style suited to describing low-grade depression, a bland Houston subdivision, and the delicate condition of a marriage. It is as if he had before him the psychological equivalent of paint chips representing the subtle states of being blue...
...Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, David M. Gross, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Megan Rutherford, Andrea...