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Word: hack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton wants to be President. How can a little-known pol from a small state make it against a popular President? For this expert hack, the answer follows the old if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em logic. Clinton figures he has to run as a moderate. Cut spending. Support the death penalty. Talk pro-business and anti-liberal. For conservative times, this is smart. Too bad it's bullshit...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Of LITTLE Rock, S | Title: Chameleon Candidate | 9/18/1991 | See Source »

...only one: Valeri Boldin, his own chief of staff. It was as if John Sununu had joined a coup against George Bush. The others were finally identified as Oleg Baklanov, deputy chairman of the National Defense Council and in effect leader of the military-industrial complex; a Communist Party hack named Oleg Shenin; and General Valentin Varennikov. In the name of the so-called State Committee for the State of Emergency, the visitors demanded that Gorbachev sign a decree proclaiming an emergency and turning over all his powers to Vice President Gennadi Yanayev. Gorbachev's reply: "Go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postmortem Anatomy of A Coup | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...distributed by the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) and agreed to co-sponsor a Holocaust memorial service with the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), AALARM co-founder E. Adam Webb '93 actually told The Crimson that Hillel was a "political, PC hack group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OICURPC! | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...kosher food Hillel serves at every meal is not political, PC hack food. The Hillel-sponsored Mosaic is not a political, PC hack literary magazine. Hillel's Sabbath services are not political, PC hack services. Judaism is not a political, PC hack religion. You'd think the founder of an organization devoted to extending religion's influence on campus would know that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OICURPC! | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...American journalism has brought Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., on itself by worshiping at the shrine of the quote. The case is now before the Supreme Court. Most journalists would probably agree with Judge Kozinski of the lower court that an article without quotes just doesn't hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Please Don't Quote Me | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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