Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game against Colgate will serve as a final tune-up before the Crimson begins its Ivy League schedule. It first faces Dart-mouth (2-3) on Wednesday at Lavietes Pavilion...
Your cover should have read "The Courage of Newt." People may bad-mouth him all they want, but it takes uncommon courage and good sense to step down at this time. No more will Newt be the Democrat's whipping boy and everybody's scapegoat. But you watch: he'll be back in a new role; his integrity will be proved in the end! WANDA RAE BUTLER Mesquite...
...depth, offering book reviews and personalized recommendations. Orders automatically generate a thank-you e-mail. And Amazon will hunt down any title you can't find, even out-of-print books, with the friendly zealousness of a small-town Midwesterner giving you directions to the doughnut shop. "Word of mouth is incredibly powerful online," explains Jeffrey Bezos, 34, Amazon's founder and CEO. "A dissatisfied customer can tell 1,000 people in a few minutes." Scott Ehrens, a managing director at Bear Stearns, says Amazon "understands how to treat customers better than anyone else...
...corporation. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) condemned corporate polluters and gave birth to the environmental movement. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) led to drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker. Why these crusaders, and the subjects they exposed, did not command more attention in the mainstream business press is debatable--but surely the clout of corporate advertisers had something to do with...
...witness remained polite throughout, never once leaping over the table, grabbing an inquisitor by his ears and screaming, "Hey, flannel mouth--does the phrase 'posturing hypocrite windbag' ring a bell?" Indeed, I sometimes fantasize about being subpoenaed to such a hearing, just for the chance to hit back. I've got my answers ready: "Excuse me, sir; did you develop your devotion to morality before or after you left your second wife for that podiatrist's assistant?" "Senator, when you ask about a cover-up, are you referring to that pathetically unconvincing toupee?" "I'll make you an offer, Congressman...