Word: means
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pianist Bobby Short. That did not mean that the feisty composer had been defused. When one admirer became too mushy, the balding Thomson protested: "Get this man out of my hair...
Insiders get good at deciding who could have said what, particularly when anonymity operates by understood code names: a "senior State Department official aboard the Secretary's plane" used to mean Henry Kissinger, and now means Cyrus Vance. A diplomat or bureaucrat can privately get across his side of an argument, or an explanation of policy, while publicly stating his position in Saran Wrapped platitudes. Not wanting to be used, reporters constantly labor to get off-the-record statements put back on the record but must often settle for not-for-at-tribution...
What on earth does this sentence in a news story mean? Has Nevin been guilty of some other funny business that has not yet come to light, or has he simply not done well enough, or what? A flabby and unspecific accusation is anonymously made. There it lies on a page of the New York Times-unfair, unchallengeable, unproven...
Using its new muscle, the agency became the nation's nanny. An FTC administrative judge challenged Pitching Star Vida Blue's pitches for drinking milk because blacks often have trouble digesting milk. The commission proposed a truth-in-menu rule that might mean, for example, that no restaurant could offer as Maryland crab any crustacean that had crawled into Delaware. The agency intensified a holy war against breakfast cereal companies; it has proposed breaking them up and banning ads for presweetened cereals from Saturday morning's TV cartoon shows. An FTC-proposed rule warned that such...
...reformers really mean to punish the FTC and severely limit its powers." In an attempt to stop such congressional action, top Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat sent an urgent plea to Senator Ford, arguing that the Senate was about to "undermine the capacity of Government agencies to meet real public needs...