Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shocked if he had accused me of kidnapping Steve Forbes. First of all, who knew that my piece had been published? And if it had, the piece that I had sent the Times was anything but offensive--it had poked a bit of fun at the facts, perhaps, but hadn't it ended with that eloquent tribute to fact-checking? Didn't I call fact-checking the "life insurance of print media itself...
...forget the supreme irony of the moment: A writer and a fact-checker, I was dragged through the dirt by force of words and misrepresented facts! I will also never forget that my exoneration was little more than a miracle. I had no real evidence to prove that I hadn't meant exactly what the Times had printed--I was just fortunate that my editor even chose to believe...
...more notches. To add to the already stressful midterms period, Harvard students encountered yet another source of frustration last Thursday when e-mail accounts were inaccessible for four hours. Just a week ago, Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Service (HASCS) discovered lost messages from about 50 students that hadn't been sent for nine days. The inefficiency of Harvard's computer network system screams for change...
...Clinton team's second air attack was launched in August, when the consultants began broadcasting some very tough spots attacking the G.O.P. plan to trim the growth of Medicare. They had scrapped a set of even tougher spots, because they hadn't "mall-tested" well. In a mall test, which Penn had pioneered as a way of refining television ads for AT&T, Clinton spots would be shown to voters in kiosks set up in malls in 16 swing states. At the kiosk, a Penn and Schoen employee would ask a voter questions about his or her political affiliations...
...campaign than his Democratic opponent while trying to stick the standard "liberal" label on him. But Cleland carefully distanced himself from President Clinton and followed his own counsel to "stay in the sensible center." That broad appeal, coupled with his heroic background, made Cleland unbeatable, even though Southern Democrats hadn't won an open Senate seat since...