Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks of memos and missed phone calls. At a Chrysler plant in Missouri, a shop steward describes labor-saving technology that his union members embraced because they see how their factory, which had been shut down in the late '80s, is now expanding. And the greatest collection of anecdotal insight, the stock market, has spent the year betting on ever increasing profits...
...some insight into the state of race relations in America, take a look at the state of the President's Initiative on Race. Led by historian John Hope Franklin, the seven-member advisory board has been denounced for political correctness (every member generally favors affirmative action) and censured for not wanting to listen to dissenters (Franklin declined to hear from affirmative action's leading opponent, Ward Connerly). At a recent community gathering in Dallas, which was sanctioned by the panel and led by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, the doors were shut and whites kept away. And on the board itself...
...report six months ago on the increased number of waivers granted to otherwise ineligible people to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the story sank like a stone. Perhaps that's because it didn't have a p.r. campaign behind it like the one orchestrated last week by Insight magazine, owned by the conservative Washington Times newspaper...
While the earlier story did not suggest that the waivers were payoffs to President Clinton's political contributors, the Insight piece declared right up front that they "apparently" were. It offered no names and no proof. But that didn't seem to matter. Insight faxed the story to talk-radio shows nationwide and dozens of Rush wannabes. Insight's press release encouraged the talk-show hosts to call Representative TERRY EVERETT, an Alabama Republican who has been looking into the matter for months without reaching any conclusion. Smelling blood, JIM NICHOLSON, ex-Army Ranger and the chairman of the Republican...
...insight into what makes good turn bad might help doctors make good cholesterol even better. It may also point the way to better drugs and explain why aspirin helps prevent heart attacks. Besides its well-known action of thinning the blood and making clotting less likely, aspirin may also tone down the inflammation that leads to plaque formation...