Word: demos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospect of a Democratic legislative sweep could unnerve the Street--but that's just what started to happen last week, as Dole stepped up his "character" assault on Clinton, only to step on his own toes in the process. If Dole turns mean, Clinton might inspire voters to give Demo-crats the seats they need to control both arms of Congress. "If the Democrats sweep, it would be a tax-and-spend mandate," Melcher says. "The bond market would go first and the stock market would follow...
...other accessories unmatched in the Boston area, and their prices tend to be as low as mail-order outlets. You can often drive a better bargain by haggling with the sales clerks, and you can save 10 or 20 percent off retail prices by purchasing a returned or demo model...
...often a work in progress. Filmmakers routinely release "director's cuts" with the controversial scenes they were forced to excise restored in all their superfluously erotic or gratuitously gory wonder; the long-lost drafts of long-dead novelists are disinterred, hyped and sold to the highest Hollywood bidder; obscure demo tracks made by disbanded rock groups are remixed, released, and everybody closes their eyes and pretends John just went out for a very long smoke...
...adventurous musicians around New York City were making, Reid organized the Black Rock Coalition in 1985. The group's manifesto bluntly declared, "Rock 'n' roll is black music, and we are its heirs." Still, it took the intervention of Mick Jagger, who paid for and produced the band's demo tape, for Living Colour to get signed by Epic Records...
...Real Love, Lennon's dreamy 1979 ballad to which Paul, George and Ringo added sweet harmonies and rhythmic heft. There's also 12-Bar Original, a metallic-blues instrumental from 1965. Two other "new" songs are from that year: Paul's flaccid That Means a Lot, recorded as a demo for a single by P.J. Proby; and a Ringo vocal, If You've Got Trouble, with inanely taunting lyrics: "You think I'm soft in the head/ Well, try someone softer instead...