Word: byronic
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...boss." Conservatives still argue--garnering huge and sympathetic audiences in the process--that the traditional media giants lean left. But these days, that familiar spiel is done more for rhetorical effect. Conservatives know their power in talk radio, cable television and publishing, and they exult in it. Democratic Senator Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota recently commissioned a study of a week's worth of programming by the nation's 44 top-rated radio stations and found they broadcast 312 hours of conservative talk programming, compared with 5 hours of liberal shows. And with conservative authors staked out atop...
...designed sets and wrote scripts, gave dramatic readings of Shakespeare and Lord Byron and directed all kinds of performances—operas, house plays and even a ballet...
...economy. Alan Levenson, chief economist at fund company T. Rowe Price, expects a healthy annual growth rate of 3.5% in the second half of this year and 4% in 2004, assuming--as any bullish case must--that the war keeps going well and there is no major terror event. Byron Wien, chief U.S. market strategist at Morgan Stanley, says investors who wait for a stock pullback will be disappointed. "The economy has done remarkably well in the face of high oil prices, a cold winter and the geopolitical concerns," he says. "Take those away, and it should really improve...
...friends, his admirers and many publishing houses have been urging Professor Copeland to publish a collection of his readings with critical comment. He has, however, always said "no" to every suggestion or proposal; in fact, he has not published any books since 1909, when his "Selections from Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats", written in colaboration with H. M. Rideout '99, appeared...
Some might have said that Mass. State Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) was crazy to run for House Speaker against incumbent Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan). His foe was, after all, the same political boss who has taken a thoroughly dictatorial approach to his rule of the Massachusetts House over the last six years—the same speaker who has made sure those who so much as vote against legislation he supports are banished to obscure committees and cramped offices...