Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such tactics have done much to blunt the invaders' advance. In California AT&T had hoped to add local subscribers at the rate of 5,000 a day. But Bennett says Pacific Bell has been installing local service for only about 100 new AT&T customers a day, forcing him to scale back marketing efforts in the Golden State. New MCI subscribers have experienced similar delays. Jonathan Sallet, MCI's chief policy counsel, says PacBell takes an average of three weeks to switch on MCI customers in California, although PacBell switches on its own clients in seven days. Replies...
...ills suffered in airplanes. "That was a means of buying his silence and his cooperation so he would not be a spokesman for the opposite position." LeBow didn't disagree. "We accepted it for a while, but they canceled after about five, six months," he testified. During an often blunt-spoken 90 minutes of testimony, LeBow wasn't asked why Philip Morris stopped subsidizing him. Perhaps they saw no motive for LeBow to speak out. Perhaps they should have kept paying...
...largest owner of the Embassy Suite hotels. Then it quietly put the luxe St. Regis hotel, off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, on the block, even though New York hoteliers stand to rake in profits for years. "ITT management is willing to do anything to keep their jobs," is the blunt assessment of David Wolfe, who follows the lodging industry for the investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. "They are not as concerned about shareholder value as we thought...
Other songs on the album work better. Doll has a fleeting, folksy loveliness, Monkey Wrench throws effective pop punches, and Hey, Johnny Park! has an ingratiating melody. But none has much ambition beyond making a blunt impact. If you're going to spell "colour" with a u in your album title, shouldn't you at least try for pretentiousness...
...songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, 'Up in Arms,' David Grohl actually sings, 'I cannot forget you, girl.' The problem is that there's nothing new here; none of the songs has much ambition beyond making a blunt impact. "If you're going to spell 'colour' with a u in your album title," Farley says, "shouldn't you at least try for pretentiousness?" MUSIC . . . FLAMING PIE: Much of Paul McCartney's new album was composed while he was helping compile the songs on the three Beatles Anthology albums...