Word: slant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aspect of trial balloons, however, is that public officials gauge public opinion not through polls but rather by reading the newspapers and especially editorials! Public officials assume that a solid connection exists between the media's message and public opinion, and the cause and effect work both ways. The slant of articles and the ideas of editorialists have a tremendous impact on government officials...
Gabay summed up the general slant of the fledgling magazine: "It's for people who want to have a good time...
...column on TV, and I take it as seriously as does Mike Royko or David Broder." Yet Bloodworth-Thomason denies that the TV community is a liberal monolith. "Entertainment corporations are owned by old, white, conservative, rich men," she says. "The artists they employ are more liberal. The slant of what the artists are allowed to put out will be determined by the profit factor. The bottom line is money...
...deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives as "spade," "nigger," "honky," "redskin," "gook" and "slant-eye" as nonformal and altogether ignores other, similar terms...
...understand, Mr. President. The old vision thing, I suppose, rearing its ugly head. Permit me to go at this from another slant. Suppose that Mrs. Bush...