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...Pickett, executive editor of the American Heritage Dictionary, says that changes to dictionary entries are always on the table, but he and his seven fellow editors are a tough crowd. They keep an eye on print publications to see whether a variant usage has started to become mainstream. Any word that seems to be a good candidate for an update undergoes rigorous scrutiny as the editors seek input from a panel of some 200 orthographic and lexicographic whizzes. Even among this writerly crowd, 13% admitted in 1996 to combining a lot into a single word. But 93% still considered...
...TIME: The term "checkbook diplomacy" implies a bribe in return for diplomatic recognition. Are you saying that you want to move Taiwan away from that to a more mainstream conventional program...
...Diplomacy Gap How is it that when the Bush administration declares a "diplomacy surge," the message is dutifully repeated in the mainstream press? Yet when Iranian President Mohammed Khatami offered to negotiate all outstanding issues with the U.S. in 2003, the press completely ignored Iran's diplomatic gestures. Timothy Eddy, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
...players under age 30, including students, teachers and retail workers. "When we started it, no one had even heard of beer pong," says Paul Riebenack, one of the Hangout's two owners. "Now everyone seems to know what it is. Two and a half years later, it's more mainstream...
...until 2002 that Warren became a mainstream megastar, following the publication of The Purpose Driven Life. Beyond its striking opening assertion - "It's not about you" (it's about God and you) - the book, like its predecessor, was a crystal-clear blueprint, in this case for extending Sunday spirituality to the rest of one's life. It employed the tropes of the self-help genre (A 40-day program! Exercises!) to chart a user's guide to living midstream Evangelical doctrine. (On God's wanting believers to be a "living sacrifice": "The problem with a living sacrifice is that...