Word: mainstream
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Buchanan thus creates a dilemma for those he claims to defend. His presence in the presidential election will cause other mainstream politicians to recognize this "forgotten" constituency. It may lead to newer and wiser policies to win their support. But there is also a danger that a Buchanan candidacy will lose the genuine concerns of blue-collar workers amidst his occasionally outrageous statements and ineffective proposals. Buchanan has said that "the economy is not the country; the country comes first." This is an interesting idea, and it merits debate. But a worthwhile debate can exist only without extremism and must...
Faculty absenteeism is one of the most common complaints leveled by critics of today's university system. The pages of the Chronicle of Higher Education--and more mainstream publications--resound with accusations of greed and egoism directed towards professors who flee the classroom for high-paying consulting jobs and the media spotlight...
After two generations of women's studies, the pickings are getting slim. All the major and most of the minor figures, from Pandora to Paglia, have been covered. But the gender genie is out of the bottle, and locating yet another of history's unsung females is now a mainstream imperative...
Pecker, 48, a hard-driving executive, began by spending $5 million to redesign the Enquirer and the Star. He set out to soften stories with a harder edge and to reposition the tabloids as rivals, for both readers and advertisers, of mainstream publications like People (which, like Time, is published by Time Inc.). Casual headline scanners in grocery check-out lines may not have noticed the difference yet, but Pecker claims it exists. "If there's a Hollywood scandal, the investigative portion will be done by the National Enquirer. The impact on celebrities, on their careers, that will be done...
...which the dedicated Globe reader may respond, "Uh-oh." Pecker seems determined to do to tabloids what Disney did to New York City's Times Square--i.e., clean things up for family consumption. Since tabloid-type stories now crop up so frequently in mainstream print and on TV, Pecker wants the real tabloids to get more respect--and a bigger share of the action. "Right now only 8% of our revenue is advertising," he says. "I think there's an opportunity to get it up to 15% to 20%." To lure upscale advertisers, Pecker has swallowed a weekly loss...