Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember one vivid phrase or image from George Bush's recent State of the Union message? Probably not. And a big reason, quite simply, is that Peggy Noonan did not write it. For if words are the weapons of politics, then Noonan -- whether nervously chain-smoking at her computer in Ronald Reagan's White House or minding her baby son at home as she created the "kinder, gentler" persona for George Bush -- commanded a battalion...
...length" was the key phrase when the plans were set down for the first independent firm owned by a university with the sole task of managing its endowment. And as he prepares to step down as president of the company he created in 1974, Cabot says it "is running as well now as it ever...
Mary Cist and the Harvard women's squash team confirmed once again that oldest and wisest of sports axioms. Down, 14-11, in the fifth set, Cist kept battling back--and kept repeating one phrase over and over...
Since taking office, De Klerk has often spoken of a "new South Africa." The shape of that new nation is still -- deliberately -- undefined. But one phrase is firmly inked in: "group rights," De Klerk's code name for the preservation of white privilege. In South Africa, when whites talk about "minority rights" they mean the protection of white power and wealth, and when they refer to "the tyranny of the majority" they mean black rule. De Klerk's so-called multiracial state does not denote racial integration but a system in which each race will have its own rights...
MADE IN U.S.A. may not have the cachet it once had, but in the realm of antiques, the phrase is coming to mean extraordinary value for well-fixed investors. When two tiny, exquisite 18th century Philadelphia tables were auctioned at Christie's in Manhattan last Saturday, the prices they fetched were breathtaking. The first item, a dainty piecrust tea table, sold for $1.2 million; the second, a rectangular pier table less than 3 ft. high, was whisked from the block for $4.6 million...