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...Even that is probably too clear and specific. When Goodman uses the word not as something done to an area but as something done to the victims, then its only function is to be long and Latinate and abstract. That makes it suitable as a euphemism for a blunter word, like kill...
...been a factor, but since the advent of videos it has become crucial." Says Dan Beck, merchandising director for CBS Associated labels: "One of the reasons Cyndi Lauper was signed was because she'll be a great film performer." An executive at CBS, which distributes Portrait, is even blunter. "Lauper had the vocals as well as the visuals, or she wouldn't have been signed...
While Baldrige seems more comfortable giving advice on such matters as what sort of personal stationery to order (use good graphics or a logo) and how to outfit the corporate jet (carry the latest quarterly report), Mazzei's approach is blunter and, at times, more realistic. His advice ranges from how a woman executive should deal with the office boy's crush ("Don't crush it") to how to handle people when taking over a new department ("Make no promises...
...forget these brave people and their struggle," President Ronald Reagan said last week. The Socialist government of French President Francois Mitterrand did not mention the Soviet Union by name, but it "denounced all foreign intervention in Afghanistan's internal affairs." West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher was blunter, pledging support for "the Afghan people in their demand for freedom." In Tehran several hundred protesters marched outside the Soviet embassy, and in New Delhi hundreds of Afghan exiles demonstrated in front of the Soviet embassy, raising clenched fists and shouting, "Down with the KGB." Perhaps the harshest criticism came...
Large public universities, for instance, are suddenly raising or establishing cutoff scores and grades for admission. That practice has ing been considered too rigid, and hence unfair. In an even blunter attempt to spur high schools to action, some systems, like California's are adopting specific curricular requirements. They're refusing to consider anyone without a set number of years in English, math, and so forth. Others are considering shifting their admissions emphasis to Achievement Tests, rather than SATs, and that, too, is adding to the momentum of attempted curriculum manipulation...