Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Celebrities, sometimes deliberately, sometimes unwittingly, encourage overinvolvement by their fans. A sort of perverse symbiosis exists between star and votary. Many celebrities lack sturdy egos and are looking for unqualified adoration. Others think that their most emotional and devoted fans are integral to their success and must be cultivated. Dietz deplores the Hollywood routine of answering fan mail. And he is especially critical of the practice of sending out autographed publicity photos: "Sometimes mentally ill recipients interpret the signed photograph as a personal communication confirming, for example, that they are about to be married...
...computer executives greeted the plan with mild interest. While a spokesman for Apple noted that "we are pleased with the decision," he added that Soviet-bloc countries lack the marketing skills and hard currencies necessary to produce strong sales volume. Even so, hackers in Moscow were excited by the prospect of more American computers. "This is very important to us," said a Soviet computer importer. "Almost every day we have customers who come to our office ready to do business...
...external causes--the small value placed on Black lives by police and others, the lack of economic opportunity or alternative visions--are more obvious...
...entrench existing ((Time)) management disguised in a pompous, highfalutin' claim." Wrote he: "I understand the argument . . . But I am not persuaded that there may not be instances in which the law might recognize as valid a perceived threat to a 'corporate culture' that is shown to be palpable (for lack of a better word), distinctive and advantageous...
...leaks dried up, the capital's best reporters were caught by other stories, like allegations against former Attorney General Ed Meese and the Iran-contra scandal. HUD remained the gulag of Washington journalism, a backwater with an obscure chief administrator they dubbed "Silent Sam" Pierce. There was a distinct lack of glitz and glamour about the HUD beat. "We were looking elsewhere," explains syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. "We don't have enough eyes to look at HUD. The very name HUD says dullness, dullness, dullness...