Word: slews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pursue projects that interest you and stick with them until you succeed, a slew of distinguished female professionals speaking at the Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Leadership Conference advised their audience this week...
...form of "hate speech." At least one advertiser felt the heat and backed down. Miller Lite decided to yank an ad showing cowboys roping divorce lawyers at a rodeo. But the enmity runs deep in the culture: after Saferstein spoke out publicly against such bashing, he received a slew of derisive calls at his office, leading his partners to beef up security...
...much to hope for a "Prague Spring"-like renaissance in the party? It is too much to hope for a slew of liberal legislation, for the country's benefit, at any cost. Perhaps if Congresspeople had to swear an additional oath, along the John F. Kennedy '40 line, "Ask not what your country can do for you," we'd have some less self-interested politicians. Liberals of all people should realize that they have to put the greater good ahead of their own ambitions...
...that slim, either. I've been quoted in USA Today, on Channel 5 TV in Boston and on BBC radio. I've been interviewed for The Economist. I've talked to two reporters from The Boston Globe (neither of whom quoted me.) And I've fielded calls from a slew of news organizations who simply call up The Crimson looking for help from whomever answers the phone...
...about-face more evident than at third-ranked NBC. Last year the network did a radical spring cleaning, junking aging hits like Matlock and In the Heat of the Night (both were later picked up by other networks and are doing just fine, thank you) and adding a slew of youth-oriented sitcoms. The tactic didn't work, and this time around NBC programmers are touting two strategies for the fall: big stars and "broad-based family entertainment." Among their offerings: Valerie Bertinelli as a divorce living in Paris (Cafe Americain); a high-school coach and his family in Texas...