Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our fiends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
More understandable is most lobbyists' steadfast refusal to be caught lobbying. Lobbying is like nose picking--nearly everyone does it, but no one admits to it. Unwilling to associate themselves with the schmoozy hired hands at Hill and Knowlton or Patton, Boggs and Blow, most lobbyists prefer to call themselves "educators" or "legislative activists" instead...
Every 19 seconds a car is stolen. Every day about 70 automobiles are carjacked. But it is not statistics that make people tuck the Mace into the glove compartment, or change their route home from work, or discover the virtues of carpooling, or prefer the risk of a ticket to stopping at red lights in a bad part of town. It is the stories, not the statistics, that breed fear...
...according to, among other surveys, the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. No wonder there is revolt in the air. "The god Narcissus ruled in the '80s," says a middle-aged publicist in Los Angeles, a man who is sensitive about his 15-lb. , gain and would prefer to keep his name to himself. "He was the least powerful and most uninteresting god. In the '90s Narcissus will be dethroned...
...surprisingly, many of the 200,000 customers who visit Leonard's two supermarkets each week prefer not to believe it. Leonard is a folk hero in this region, a onetime milkman who built a $200 million (annual sales) business by engineering an edible Disneyland. Shoppers don't just shop at Stew's, they arrive (sometimes by tour bus) and worship the experience of wheeling oversize carts down a 20-ft.-wide aisle that meanders through the 10- acre complex like a yellow-brick road. As a result, Leonard has been hailed as a monument to family enterprise and brilliant marketing...