Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baumol and Blinder clueless?" I thought to myself frantically. "How can increased productivity of labor help the economy when it leads to layoffs...
...Potier) does a marvelous job of conveying her sexual appetite. Lisa (Kate Fletcher '99) is a meek girl who constantly vomits because of side effects from her prescriptions. Heather (Claire Schwab '99) is a Polyanna in charge of these spoiled brats, even though her character is just as clueless as the rest. The only male patient is David (grad student Dan Fitzgerald), who does a convincing job at affecting the disturbed persona of a war-shattered soldier, even if his motivations are not always clear...
Four years ago, candidate Clinton said, "People are working harder and harder and falling further and further behind." Unfortunately, that's still true. Yet until Pat Buchanan started talking about these issues, most national leaders seemed to be clueless about what was going on in America. Prostrating themselves at the altar of a balanced budget, the politicians in Washington paid little attention to what was happening to the family budget. Then, Pat Buchanan steps forward to be the "voice of the voiceless," and the peoples' quiet desperation seems muted no longer...
...great, huge perversion of all of this," says Alexander campaign media adviser Mike Murphy, "is that [Forbes] got in to stop Dole, but the only effect he's having is to help him. In exchange for helping Dole, he's going to get to be the Secretary of Rich Clueless Guys." Gramm shares Alexander's dilemma, but he has more to lose. Gramm cannot rely on Dole to target Forbes much longer, since the Dole camp wants only to wound Forbes, not kill him off. That means Gramm will have to attack Forbes on the air if he hopes...
Paramount executives maintain that the studio actually exceeded its financial targets in 1995, thanks to successes like Congo and Clueless. Indeed, top Paramount executives Jonathan Dolgen and Sherry Lansing were just given new contracts, and Redstone seems eager to work with them--closely. "Sherry said to me, 'I promise you I won't make a picture unless I'm in love with the script,'" Redstone relates. "That was the problem with Jade. I liked the picture, but I didn't know who was killing whom...