Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although this dialogue is indeed remarkably lifelike, it is also less than gripping. "Was that the doorbell, Larry? Why don't you let me get it this time?" is not a fascinating way to advance the plot, especially when it leads to an ending that, although satisfying, seems rather pat...
...immediate images of a campaign, highlighted in glossy brochures and pat sales pitches, are of posh new buildings and prestigious endowed professorships, but the long term--and less publicized effect--is to indefinitely (or at least until the next campaign) increase one of a university's most important sources of revenue...
Promise Keepers president Randy Phillips told The New York Times that, "We are not a political organization. We do not have any political goals." Someone should let Promise Keepers supporters and religious-right politicos from Pat Buchanan to evangelists Dale D. Schlafer and Billy Graham in on that secret...
...Council lobby in Washington. Since then, Dobson has given Promise Keepers strategic publicity on his radio show, has spoken at a 1993 Promise Keepers rally in Boulder, Colo., and has written a chapter in the group's guidebook. Dobson's organization has published Promise Keepers' books and materials. Similarly Pat Robertson, the former presidential candidate and Christian Coalition head, has long been a Promise Keepers supporter, spreading the word about "Stand in the Gap" on his TV show. Promise Keepers' president Randy Phillips says, "Neither Dobson nor Robertson has any impact on Promise Keepers' planning, strategy or message development...
...society. "We believe that the feminist fixation on power has sadly missed the point of the present cultural situation," said Mary Ellen Bork, the wife of the failed Supreme Court nominee and a lecturer on Catholic life. "In our view, power is not the goal in life." Added Pat Funderburk Ware, an African-American expert on preventing teenage pregnancy and HIV infection: "So many white women...are so co-opted by the feminist movement because they haven't suffered enough. They really don't know what it is not to have their men there...We've suffered enough...