Word: score
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crowd-Pleasers have the unique ability to score positive numbers in the polls without actually declaring either candidacy or policies ?- rather like George W. Bush in the early part of 1999. Crowd-Pleasers try to mimic Ronald Reagan?s knack for making people feel good about him without ever really being able to articulate why (although unlike today?s wussy centrists, of course, Reagan actually took firm and controversial policy stands). Of course, media plays a critical role in generating those feelings. But it wouldn?t be possible without some basic charisma. They?re not sure why they...
While the talent exhibition comprised 40 percent of her total score, 30 percent came from a personal interview, with the swimsuit and evening wear competitions worth 15 percent each...
While the talent exhibition comprised 40 percent of her total score, 30 percent came from a personal interview, with the swimsuit and evening wear competitions comprising 15 percent each...
...plan, never needed one. But now he was feeling stuck, restless, more than a little bored. He wasn't making money or having fun. He didn't have to worry about putting food on the table (Bushes never worried about that), but money was a way to keep score, and he was losing the competition, courting failure in the same business--the same town--where his father, the Vice President, had struck it rich 30 years before. Spectrum 7 was bleeding to death. He would either have to sell out or shut down...
...Yeltsin?s gift will provide yet more material to peruse and assess, and will thus help maintain the Kennedy assassination industry as a going concern. But an intriguing question is whether Yeltsin?s gift also represents a hidden Russian domestic agenda. "Yeltsin may have done this to score points against one or another of his enemies from the former Soviet Union," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The Russian press has reported in the past that Russian intelligence opposed the release of the JFK files, for fear the documents might reveal too much about itself. For the moment...