Word: blitz
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...Oprah were a cereal, she would be Harmony. The front of the box pictures a triumphant female figure with her arms raised; on the back is a serene photo of a woman on a beach. As part of its publicity blitz, Harmony this month is funding an exhibit at the Women's Museum in Dallas. It features a "wisdom wall" with quotes from feminist icons like Cokie Roberts and Geraldine Ferraro. It's hard to believe the minds who brought us Budweiser's "Whassup?" ads never thought of doing something like that for the guys...
...Counsel Alberto Gonzalez cooling his heels outside the Senate chamber until Democrat Patrick Leahy, now the presumptive chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could spare a moment to meet with him. There was the business lobbying group known as Arctic Power, quietly canceling a 10-state, $500,000 radio ad blitz designed to sell Memorial Day motorists on President Bush's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. There were the two dozen tripods set up a full hour before Tom Daschle made his first march down the Capitol steps as Senate majority leader...
While high-stakes tests like those in Texas have propelled some schools to ditch art and music and "focus on the basics," Fox Tech has expanded its cultural offerings--a move that has kept students such as Reyes interested in school. Test prep is confined to half-hour "blitz" classes during the five weeks leading up to the state exams. Entering freshmen get to choose which of the four schools-within-a-school to enter: Internet Design (where students can earn coveted Adobe certifications), Career Studies (auto shop, construction, cosmetology, food services and welding), the Law and Research magnet program...
...Mining Association brought in as its president Jack Gerard, a well-known Republican lobbyist and former Senate aide with easy access to the new White House. A coalition of mining companies, coal transporters and electricity producers known as Americans for Balanced Energy Choices is funding a $10 million ad blitz to improve coal's image. Another group, called the Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy, or CARE, is focused on Washington policymakers, plastering pro-coal posters on the capital's subway system...
True awfulness sets in when collateral damage is no longer collateral but becomes the intended point. Innocents are terrorized as a matter of policy. Stalin's Ukrainian famine, the rape of Nanking, the London Blitz, Dresden, the Tokyo fire bombings--all these accomplished a purposeful slaughter of bystanders in order to break an enemy's will. Sometimes the collateral damage has a moral justification--kill more than 100,000 civilians at Hiroshima, for example, in order to end the war and spare millions of lives, American and Japanese, that might have been lost in an invasion of the home islands...