Word: blushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first blush, as a Catholic, I found disturbing the singer's recent performance on Saturday Night Live, where she ripped to shreds an 8" by 10" color photo of the pontiff, while shouting "fight the real enemy". Initially, I equated this act with the disruption of the mass at New York's St. Patrick Cathedral by gay rights activists...
...first blush, Bush's plan strikes a chord: few who deal with the government regularly have a good word for those they encounter. On reflection, though, the President's scheme is a heartless swipe at a defenseless group of dedicated civil servants, designed to capture the knee-jerk support of an economically strapped electorate. "It may not be good policy," concedes a Bush adviser, "but it's damn good politics...
This back-to-basics experiment seems, at first blush, naive and obvious. Does one really need a walk in the woods to discover that TV has too many sitcoms, or that the Home Shopping Network is crass? Well, maybe we do. The Age of Missing Information is an invigorating, even revelatory look at what the TV age hath wrought...
Other major airlines offered variations on American's plan. Delta and United adopted the basic four-fare system but said they would continue to study volume discounts for corporate and military travel. Although his airline matched American's moves, Northwest chief executive John Dasburg questioned the plan. "At first blush, this actually looks like it might end up reducing rather than raising revenues per seat mile," Dasburg said. "Price simplification has been a little like tax simplification -- it doesn't seem to work...
...FIRST BLUSH, Camden Yards was the stadium of my dreams. Sports columnists in the know promised it would bring the old-time charm back to ballpark design that Watergate-era concrete monoliths like Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium had stolen away...