Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly peremptory, as when she ignored or brushed aside inconvenient questions about the Lewinsky scandal (the affair that helped make this run possible, after all, by boosting sympathy and softening her image). All week long she tried her best to stick to a script that called on her to listen and learn, seeming to absorb knowledge and wisdom from local experts and average folks in Oneonta, Cooperstown, Utica, Rome and Syracuse. The self-effacing, studious pose is supposed to buy time and get people accustomed to a startling sight: the first First Lady ever to run for office, doing...
...become a noisy fighter for New York," says an adviser. "It's got to be gradual, appropriate and reasonable." But New York, as Hillary well knows, has never been a reasonable place. It has a way of making you shout, even when all you want to do is listen...
...find new music that electrifies, that takes me, chews me up, spits me out, and makes me want more. I want new CDs to be flabbergasted by, addicted to and enveloped in. It's almost a religious experience when it happens. I felt that way when I first listened to Dave Matthews in 1995. I feel that way now when I listen to Pat McGee's music (be on the lookout), or any number of other bands...
...provide them with some insight they never had before and desperately needed. Indeed, you might even fall in love one night just because you made the decision to go out rather than stay in. Tonight could be that night. Me, I'm going out, and I'm going to listen to some music...
...rates. But some of his FOMC colleagues at that big mahogany table have been getting antsy about the Fed?s turning into a paper tiger, kowtowing to the stock market and letting the economy run wild and free. This week?s numbers give Greenspan a perfect reason not to listen. "There?s just no justification for a hike right now," says Baumohl, and plenty of reasons for maintaining the status quo ? mainly that a tightening in the U.S. could make things difficult for neighbors to the south. "The Asian crisis may be over," he says, "but the Latin American...