Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college, many will tell you, time management is the name of the game. Everybody gets 24 hours a day, so how else can you explain the fact that some accomplish more than others in that same period...
...Embassy is not so certain, and is warning U.S. citizens of recent telephone threats against American individuals and companies. Fischer notes that the Saudi reluctance to comply with U.S. requests may actually stem from mundane issues. "If the Saudis feel that they have to pay," says Fischer, "it would explain their reluctance." -- Scot Woods
...ludicrous to control the two major nationwide television stations and not have them bend to your will," says Dresner. In writing, the team adopted a more diplomatic tone. "Wherever an event is held," they wrote, "care should be taken to notify the state-run TV and radio stations to explain directly the event's significance and how we want it covered." Beginning in April, Russia's television became a virtual arm of the Yeltsin campaign, a crucial change that actually came fairly easily. With none of the more democratic candidates breaking through in the polls, most Russian journalists came...
...cause from the effect. "Futurism isn't prediction anymore," says Rushkoff. "It's state-of-the-art propaganda. It's future creation." As he sees the process, two of the futurists' most potent tools are terror and exclusivity. "They put their clients in a state of fear and then explain that they hold the secret knowledge that can save them," says Rushkoff, whose own shrewd brand of high-tech utopianism earns the 34-year-old New Yorker six-figure book advances and up to $7,500 an hour strategizing for the likes of the Sony Corp., Telecommunications Inc. and Interval...
...Western states--snarling traffic, knocking out phone and subway service, turning off air conditioners and bringing heat-drenched chaos to as many as 2 million people from Canada to Mexico. A simple coincidence? More than a few extraterrestrial aficionados thought they saw a more sinister connection. How else to explain that across a third of the U.S., movie theaters suddenly went dark...