Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine's was the loudest voice all semester, beginning with a February speech to alumni where he introduced the phrase "shouting distance" into financial aid parlance...
Calling the Key Society "long overdue," Harvard Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 predicted at the time that the group would "make obsolete the phrase 'Harvard indifference...
Cheuse, however, said she felt the "Call to Comment" on Radcliffe's oftrepeated phrase, the "intellectual terrain," was "vague...
...lofty chatfests symbolize the intimate political relationship between Clinton, a "new Democrat," and Blair, creator of new Labour. Each claims to embody a type of politics that is not just a poll-driven centrism but a "third way," a favorite Blair slogan and a phrase that Clinton highlighted in this year's State of the Union message. "Both governments have to react to challenges like globalization and better education for workers, and we have similar perspectives on what's needed," says White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, who organizes the meetings with his British counterpart, David Miliband, Blair's policy chief...
...decades the phrase "by the end of the century" denoted something far distant. But it is distant no longer. Millennial predictions are proliferating with increasing speed as prognosticators try to get in under the wire. The Internet, that electronic jungle drum, vibrates to the beat of prophecy. Much of it is in the religious, apocalyptic tradition. Just about any recent event, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is taken by some as a sign of the impending Doomsday or the flowering of the Peaceable Kingdom. Countless secular predictions also sway...