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Patience is the mantra among many WUSA boosters. "One thing I've noticed about women's sports is that the tolerance level changes," says Foudy. "If results aren't delivered right now, people are quicker to call it a failure." But at least one critic argues that the WUSA hasn't acted fast enough. Lisa Delpy Neirotti, a sports-management professor at George Washington University, says that even if the WUSA is seeking a soft relaunch next spring, it should have lined up sponsors before companies set fiscal-year ad budgets over the summer, giving the league a more solid...
...lyrical landscape: “Can’t you see what you’ve done to my heart and soul?/This is a wasteland now.” The chorus of the tense, agitated “Length of Love” is the odd mantra, “Combat salacious removal.” And the closer, “A Time to Be So Small,” has something about a “cadaverous mob.” The lyrics rarely drive the songs here, and are often difficult to decipher; Banks derives...
More than four years ago, in February of 2000, my local CBS affiliate in Chicago tried something different. With the mantra “no water-skiing squirrels” and the expertise of veteran Chi-town anchor Carol Marin, “The 10 p.m. News with Carol Marin” attempted to take local news back in time. Gone were the menacing, sensational teasers as the station went to commercial—“What your family should know about strangulation this Christmas season”—replaced by Marin standing and reciting the day?...
Sales associates hammer into every potential customer a mantra of “four packs for under eight dollars,” repeating the line multiple times and pointing to the conspicuous battery packs placed beside the cash register...
...life" has become almost a mantra for Latham (and a phrase journalists use among themselves to mock his earnestness) as he builds a narrative of constancy and purpose. Sure, he's not the first politician to do this - to show that he's one of the people - but he's doing it in a peculiarly Australian way, using the vernacular and mundane experiences to connect. Last February, when he began a series of community forums ("democracy in the raw," he calls it) at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, N.S.W., Latham immediately caught the temper of the crowd...