Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Major television networks finally pulled the harshest spots, while ABC went so far as to ban pharmaceutical commercials containing charges against rival drug companies. The networks feared people might become too confused by the back-and-forth exchanges and therefore ignore and-fourth exchanges and therefore ignore not only the charges leveled at the two drugs but also the important restrictions actually printed on the bottle. Other painkiller manufacturers fretted that the public might decrease consumption of all painkillers because they were so confused about painkiller restrictions...
...last days of the U.S.S.R. As observers both Russian and foreign point out, Zyuganov can preach it round or flat. He sounds like a social democrat when he meets with Western businessmen and diplomats, reassuring them that he favors a "mixed economy." To the party faithful, however, he puts forth a harsher anti-Western, sometimes anti-Semitic message...
...Baptist clergyman who considers himself a conservative Evangelical. "We know it's not a straight, stenographic account. When you look up those passages in Matthew, they can be read in a matter of minutes. Whereas a teacher who spoke to a large crowd like that might have held forth much...
...which student competence would be judged. This decision not only ran counter to the nation's long tradition of local control (thanks to local funding) of public schools; it also proved embarrassingly hard to implement. A blue-ribbon panel dithered over a national history standard and eventually brought forth a politically correct screed that was denounced by professional historians and rejected last year by a Senate vote of 99 to 1. A similar report on national English standards struck many people as so poorly written as to be useless...
...occasionally got a little annoyed at him," McIntosh says. "I think he played a trumpet once in a while. He also had a habit of rocking back and forth in his Harvard chair, and he would bump against the wall and hard on the floor. I even think House Master [John H.] Finley, Jr. [who lived directly below Kaczynski] even got on him about it once...