Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quietly stopped rating itself. And that's when we entered the current phase of the debacle. The Internet Content Coalition, co-founded by msnbc general manager Jim Kinsella, proposed a "news exemption" work-around: it would give news sites an N rating, which would keep them above the ratings fray. Of course, to do that you would first have to define news. Is the Village Voice news? The American Civil Liberty Union's Website? The Netly News? We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice). Screw magazine publishes reviews...
...LIEBERMAN Democrat is Mr. Above-the-Fray in Donorgate hearings, inheriting Howard Baker mantle...
Ackerman's favorite moment of the W.N.B.A. season was caught on television during a Liberty game. Rhonda Blades, a guard for New York, was kneeling next to the scorer's table, waiting to get into the fray, when she noticed two little girls sitting courtside. "Just before Rhonda went into the game," Ackerman recalls, "she gave one of the girls a high-five. Then the girl showed her hand to her friend, as if she had been given this wonderful present. And I guess...
WASHINGTON, D.C: While House and Senate Republicans struggle to get their two budgets to button in the middle, President Clinton is in the political catbird seat, safely above the fray and loving it. Tuesday, Clinton was offering political cover to legislators who support hiking Medicare premiums for wealthy seniors. "I would be happy to defend the vote of any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, who votes for this," Clinton said. He also proposed that the Treasury Department collect the premium increases rather than the IRS, so that seniors don't get confused and think they're faced with...
...competitors, willing to tear one another to pieces for the privilege of providing you with low-cost phone service. AT&T and its long-distance rivals were to charge into the $100 billion market for local calling, freeing the seven Baby Bells to enter the $70 billion long-distance fray...