Word: list
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...list has enormous market appeal. The issue that features the rankings has become what the guide's founding editor, Mel Elfin, has described as the U.S. News equivalent of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's annual swimsuit issue: it is one of the best-selling issues of the year...
...more sophisticated and accommodating, their opponents on the Christian right have become more militant and more powerful within the Republican Party. Gary Bauer, head of the Family Research Council, and his mentor James Dobson, the Christian broadcaster who heads Focus on the Family, with its 2.3 million-name mailing list, have made opposition to gay rights a defining issue. Republicans trying to bridge the gap complain that while the rhetoric of the Christian right makes compromise difficult, so does some of the language of gay activism. "They got to get off the stuff about Christians having this conspiracy to incite...
Four times this decade, Massie has co-sponsored antibias bills; four times they've died. There's no problem with enhanced penalties for crimes against race, religion or ethnicity, he's been told, but if he doesn't drop sexual orientation from the list, there's not a chance in hell. Other opponents argue against special legislation for any group or contend that existing laws are sufficient...
Such a deeply unmodern institution must be top of the list for Blair's reforming zeal. But however much one may agree with him, one must surely admit that the Lords provide a venerable spectacle, full of idiosyncratic character. The sight of the Lord Chancellor in all his forbidding finery, slumped on the woolsack adjusting his wig, listening intently to the sound of sweet and reasoned discourse (mixed with the occasional grunt and snore) is civilized, faintly amusing and surprisingly effective in terms of its legislative product...
Talk about a dubious distinction. The Council of Institutional Investors just released its annual "focus list," which spotlights 20 stocks that seriously underperformed their peers for five years. But some sporting investors have taken to using the list, which ranges this year from Adobe to Tenneco, to go bottom fishing for stocks that are about to rise...