Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breed are committee chairmen rather than members of the formal leadership (which was all but reformed out of business a couple of decades ago). In cutting deals, the modern lions rely as much on suasion as brute political force, and when they have to fight dirty, they prefer the stiletto to brass knuckles. They are policy mavens who can match any calculator-toting Administration whiz kid, statistic for statistic and program for program. They command personal respect even in an institution crowded with overweening White House wannabes. And they have a far deeper and more sophisticated understanding of Washington...
...most local newscasts are anchored by two people, almost always a man and a woman. One reason is that co-anchorship makes a show seem fast-paced. Then there is the quasi-feminist, yin-and-yang rationale: viewers evidently prefer a male-female balance at the anchor desk. (Indeed, after a decade of watching Chuck-and-Sues and Bree-and-Michaels on local news, the public was prepared to accept Hillary-and-Bill -- and to obsess on their haircuts.) "This makes more sense than the teams that have been tried," says Friedman, who produced NBC Nightly News until February...
...would prefer not to elaborate on what it smells like," he said...
...Derek has written Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society (Fireside), takes a more aggressive approach, urging black parents in effect to inoculate their children against negative messages at an early age. For example, the authors suggest that African-American parents whose children display a preference for white dolls or action figures should encourage them to play with a black one by "dressing it in the best clothes, or having it sit next to you, or doing anything you can think of to make your child sense that you prefer that doll." After that, the Hopsons...
...hero (or criminal, again, choose your favorite), but because of his historic role in reshaping the military after the Cold War. Yet Time recently reported that Powell's plan for military restructuring is remarkable only for how little it would change, and surmised that Powell seemed to prefer to cater to his military power base rather than to address the broader issues of the military's changing world role or the nation's new financial priorities...