Word: lites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Second, a Dunkin' Donuts shop opened last year within the parlor (behind the same counter, in fact), so students torn between going out for ice cream and going out for coffee can--like the hero of a Miller Lite commercial--do both...
Thus the Dole version of tax cuts is likely to be something closer to supply-side lite. His plan will rely more on the promise that a Republican Congress, working with a sympathetic President, could rein in spending enough to cut taxes way back as well. And that is where Clinton gets his opening: if elected, he will argue, the Republicans will revert to their true nature and make up the shortfalls by gutting Medicare and kicking welfare mothers and children into the street. Republicans are starting to make a similar argument about Clinton and what a second term would...
GEORGE MEANY LITE...
...success of Cracked Rear View was credited to five main reasons--good timing, great music, and marketing, marketing, marketing. The strategy also depended to a great degree on VH1. Around the time the album was released, the cable channel, which had been an MTV-lite for aging baby boomers, was undergoing a format change to capture younger viewers. Hootie, Blues Traveler, Melissa Etheridge and others were adopted as the reformatted channel's signature acts, and all received loads of album-moving airplay. Later, after Cracked Rear View sold its first million or so copies, Atlantic decided to focus on Middle...
With the aid of his collaborator, Anthony Walton, he casts himself as a sort of "Sharpton Lite." He writes with calculated candor about aspects of his life that can be counted on to spark empathy--for instance, his early career as a traveling Pentecostal "boy preacher," which began at age four. But when it comes to his forays into racially charged controversies, Sharpton's account is self-servingly selective. Take his rendition of the saga of Tawana Brawley, the black teenager whose sensational claims of having been raped by a gang of white men kept New York City...