Word: penchant
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...reminder that advertising, no less than any other art, bares the psyche of a nation. "Schmaltz is an American idiom," said Moreira. "We're a people who cherish wearing our feelings on our sleeve." Along with wavy fields of grain and golden, hazy images of plump grandparents, another American penchant is for the hard sell: buy because it tastes good, or because it works better...
...Brennan stepped down. Among the names most often mentioned -- all conservative Republicans -- are Clarence Thomas, 43, a black federal appeals judge from Washington; Ricardo Hinojosa, 40, a Mexican-American federal district judge from Texas; and Edith Jones, 41, a white federal appeals judge from Houston. But Bush has a penchant for surprise nominations -- witness his choice of Dan Quayle as a running mate -- and he might indulge it this time...
...backfire if the Kremlin gets the idea that each concession is answered only by a demand for more concessions. At some point the Western powers need to work out a specific position: we offer so-and-so-many dollars in return for this or that reform. Given Gorbachev's penchant for zigzags between the authoritarian hard-liners who seemed to be in ascendancy as recently as mid-April and the democratic reformers who again are gaining strength now, that agreement ought to come sooner rather than later...
...would think that Harvard, with its multi-billion-dollar endowment and recent penchant for construction, could have found a location close to home for the overflow volumes. But a new building wouldn't be necessary if the University would make clever use of some abandoned real estate nearby...
...Deco building on Manhattan's 42nd Street was reporter Clark Kent's workplace in the Superman movies). For the tabloid's fans, Maxwell's moxie may prove congenial. He has shown a shrewd feel for the city's odd blend of worldliness and parochialism. Playing to Manhattanites' penchant for embracing almost any outsider who professes himself instantly smitten with their metropolis, Maxwell arrived by yacht to start negotiations and, before stepping into a waiting Cadillac, spoke the tantric words, "I love New York." Recalling the tradition of the News as "the people's paper," Maxwell said, "I want...