Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Being in Martha's thrall is like buying a treadmill and instantly feeling fit even though it serves mainly as a coat rack; acquiring the Martha oeuvre makes you think you will conduct a beautiful domestic symphony one of these days--when the kids grow up, when you lose your day job and perhaps the lunkhead you've married who likes meat loaf and ketchup. The magazine and television show bearing her name and developed with Time Inc. (she and the company are talking about restructuring the relationship) have a Merchant-Ivory movie-set glow. Actual people, as opposed...
...those things that help define influence: a vision that inspires people to shed their doubts and follow his lead, an ability to connect with people and shape the way they look at the world. This is why the same man who can order troops to Haiti can still lose a floor vote in Congress on health care...
...network heads. What is certain is how badly he wishes he still held his old crown: most influential. That's what he was a few years ago, when his "stupid pet tricks" and Top 10 lists were undoing the conventions of the late-night talk show. But influence can lose its cutting edge, especially when others (see Jay Leno) begin to copy...
...from the black-earth zone of European Russia to Siberian forests, microphone in hand, bantering, pledging, urging. Wooing the youth vote in Ufa two weeks ago, his cheeks glowing, Yeltsin danced at a free rock concert, bellowing to thousands of Generation Xers, "Vote! Vote, or you'll damn well lose it all." At a state farm near Tver last week he promised workers, as he has everywhere, that he would pay their back salaries. "I'll give you the money, now that you have cornered me," he vowed. "But will you support...
Russians are a cynical lot, though, and a pervasive air of distrust clouds the entire enterprise. The Communists have been feeding voters dark tales of conspiracy, and even Yeltsin's supporters believe he will not allow himself to lose. By fair means or foul, citizens predict, Yeltsin is the present and future President. Of course if Zyuganov wins, Russians will also say he cheated. And whoever loses will charge the other with fraud...