Word: mantras
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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...
Dartboard has had her share of ups and downs with the Harvard University Dining System (HUDS), but she’s made it through two years of not especially fine cuisine by repeating her mother’s mantra, “You eat to live, you don’t live...
...subplot have dribbled out, suggesting that he was a slacker in his later days as a pilot in the Guard and may not have fulfilled his obligations to the military. Bush has prolonged the intrigue by never fully answering questions about his service. His representatives repeat, like a mantra, that Bush was honorably discharged from the service, so why keep asking us about these pesky details? With critics of Democratic challenger John Kerry raising unsubstantiated claims that he exaggerated his heroism as a swift-boat commander in Vietnam, the matter of Bush's own service is back in the spotlight...