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...registration among Democrats is booming. California has enrolled 300,000 new Democrats and only 15,000 new Republicans since the spring. But, while that shift could have an impact in congressional races, it won't change that state's 55 electoral college votes, which have been in the Democratic column since...
...Some weeks ago, Randy Michaels, COO of the Tribune newspaper group - the second largest in the nation - mused in a conference call with investors that while the company's salespeople were judged by their performance, "nobody has ever said, 'How many column inches does a journalist write?'" The problem is, productivity quotas are anathema to one of journalism's core duties, investigative reporting - an expensive enterprise that can consume months of a writer's time and often yield few results. With money at major news organizations tightening, editors and publishers are being faced with an uncomfortable question: who is worth...
...history: Until the 1980s, running mates were chosen primarily to placate party factions and broaden geographic appeal. John F. Kennedy didn't want Lyndon B. Johnson in his White House in 1960, but he needed Johnson's home state of Texas in his win column. Gerald R. Ford was pressured by the G.O.P.'s conservative wing to drop liberal Nelson Rockefeller from his 1976 ticket in favor of the more right-leaning Bob Dole...
...told him some of my MP3s were pirated, which didn't concern him. Unable to think of anything else wrong I'd done, I figured I'd mention that I once wrote a very unpopular column about not supporting the troops. "What? You wrote a column about how you don't support the troops? This is what we in the business would call a showstopper. Yikes." He then went to my Wikipedia page and informed me that I would have gotten axed in the first two minutes of Phase...
...porn and hates America," he said. When I explained that was a joke, he told me jokes don't make for good campaigning. "Generally, people don't like to know that their Vice President wrote the sentence 'I love porn.' I'm now looking at the unpublished Joel Stein columns. 'The Hooker in My Car'? I'm now reading your column about your marijuana brownies. It's not the best thing in the world. This column is about your travels through the Girls Gone Wild world. If we did this for real, I would have called you and said...