Word: propellent
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...unique problems. Insiders explain that its founder, while savvy and brash, was undisciplined. Says one: "Adam was always supremely confident. For him to desire something was quite enough, and the fact that it didn't exist didn't matter." Critics say his impulsive demands were enough to propel the company for the first year, but he lacked the management experience to run a larger company in a highly competitive field...
CHRISTINE CRAFT WAS a popular news anchor in 1981, for Kansas City television station KMBC-TV. In eight months, Craft had helped propel KMBC's news ratings from second to first in the nation's 27th largest market. There was a problem: the station did not think she was pretty nor deferential enough to men. Craft found herself out of a job, and Metromedia, Inc., which then owned KMBC, later found itself in court...
Harold Washington, still revelling in his election as Chicago's first Black mayor swept through Boston Sunday in an effort to bolster minority voter registration and propel Black mayoral candidate Melvin H. King into City Hall this fall...
...Village," which slows to a crawl before springing into a bouncy dance number, "586," and the clarion cry "I see danger, danger, danger," falls into the first category. Like "Temptation," "The Village" softens up the eternal beat by relying more on programmed keyboard rhythms than on electronic drums to propel the song. But the treatment seems forced and the not-quite-that-catchy hook is shoved down the listener's throat until getting a cold respite of the pulse-like drum beat, and a few clipped notes from a real bass...
Those ironic words, written in 1824 at a time of fierce economic nationalism, are still true today. The system of free trade that blossomed after World War II and helped propel a quarter-century of unmatched world prosperity is now under attack. In the wake of a recession that has left 24 million people out of work in the U.S. and Western Europe alone, more and more businessmen, labor leaders and politicians are demanding protectionist barriers against foreign competition...