Word: dampers
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...course, it's not an upfront without an after-party, and NBC's put a chilly bit of a damper on what should have been a bright day for the season's most commercially successful network: an unseasonably cold May rainstorm forced the Rockefeller Center party crew to throw up tents, as waiters continually swept away a half-inch of rainwater with brooms. (Insert metaphor for the networks vainlly trying to sweep away the tide of cable and audience fragmentation here.) Still it didn't stop your valiant reporter from rubbernecking at Ashleigh Banfield (who held court around a teensy...
...Princeton runners] kind of put a damper on things, but I get to race them again in two weeks and I think I can take him down there,” Seidel said. “I think I’m getting in better shape now so I’ll keep on improving...
...campaign-finance-reform bill won final passage last week, it became fashionable to dismiss it as too weak to clean up the money game. But if President Bush signs the bill, as he says he will, and if it survives a court challenge, it will put a damper on at least one type of feeding frenzy: soft-money bacchanals like the one last May, when 3,000 gathered at the D.C. Armory for a black-tie gala honoring the new President. In his speech, George W. Bush noted Washington's "many temptations," one of which is its money culture...
...campaign-finance-reform bill won final passage last week, it became fashionable to dismiss it as too weak to clean up the money game. But if President Bush signs the bill, as he says he will, and if it survives a court challenge, it will put a damper on at least one type of feeding frenzy: soft-money bacchanals like the one last May, when 3,000 gathered at the D.C. Armory for a black-tie gala honoring the new President. In his speech, George W. Bush noted Washington's "many temptations," one of which is its money culture...
...could be a real grind-it-out comeback. Although consumers have been pretty stalwart, considering, about doing the patriotic thing and spending their money, the job market is still a very scary place, and the emotional pallor of the post-Sept. 11 world still means a damper on traffic at the malls. (Just ask retailers this winter. Or better yet, look at their discounts.) Consumers, accounting for two thirds of U.S. economic activity and generally very conscientious about it, have pulled us through one potential economic crisis after another through the 90s, and they can't be blamed...