Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crow laws ended 30 years ago, the ill-will created by these institutions still exists, and expands any time a black person is treated unfairly by a white person. The problem is that the people who committed these racist atrocities have long since died and thus there is not outlet for the black community's intense anger...
There was nothing remarkable about the two men who kept coming back for fried chicken at the new KFC outlet in Bangalore. Nothing, that is, until they proved to be undercover agents for city officials, who charged that the chicken they had bought was adulterated, misbranded, unfit for consumption and laced with dangerously high levels of monosodium glutamate--a seasoning that authorities claimed could cause cancer when consumed in large amounts. (Studies conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found no link between MSG and cancer.) Shaken KFC managers, who denied the charges and pointed out that...
...nothing much works anymore, a land whose economy, as well as its army, is badly mismanaged. Consequently, while he can still engage in terrorism, Saddam no longer inspires fear in his neighbors. King Hussein of Jordan supported Iraq during the Gulf War, and Jordan has been Iraq's only outlet to the outside world during the years of the embargo. Now King Hussein shelters the defectors and hints that Saddam should be overthrown...
...networks still reach 98% of American homes. Even in the face of declining audiences, the broadcast networks are looking at their best year ever in terms of advertising, with an expected $5 billion in revenues for the 1995-96 season. For a movie studio looking for a name-brand outlet for its product, the networks remain, as Raymond Katz, a media analyst at Bear, Stearns, puts it, "the most efficient marketing vehicle there...
...executive, Levin has consistently defended the company's raunchy rap music on the grounds of freedom of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a legitimate expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. "The test of any democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed column, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however controversial or exasperating the results may sometimes...