Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raves inspired by her congressional testimony a month earlier, an indication perhaps of how much the Administration's support has slipped. In any case, Clinton's lieutenants are prepared to make additional modifications in their plan to win votes away from the alternatives. "We're hoping to peel off some people from the left, some from the center and some from the center-right," says one strategist, who writes off only the most conservative Republicans as unwooable...
...discovery, says British scientist David Peel, co-author of one of the reports, is "staggering." Worldwide temperature shifts of a few degrees over half a century -- the kind envisioned in theories of global warming -- would disrupt weather patterns, change sea levels and be difficult for animal and plant life to adjust to. The changes Peel measured, though, are roughly three times as severe and rapid...
...have to peel back the layers a little bit," agrees House Committee Chair Michael A. Jobst...
...climbing up the ladder. And we can offer them respect." And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a cheer for it. In an age when the two- candidate presidential race is no longer something to count on, a good chunk of the Democratic core constituency would peel off for third parties...
...picture of the backlash has more to do with the messages that permeate everyday life, through television and movies, through fashions and advertising. Naomi Wolf's book The Beauty Myth got readers talking about why women starve themselves, have breast implants, apply acid to their face to peel off the wrinkles, and why fashion magazines came to favor photo spreads of women wearing dog collars and chains and penciled-on bruises. It is on issues of symbol and representation that Faludi and the newly bred backlash theorists have the most fun and start the liveliest arguments over who really represented...