Word: sloganeering
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...recent years, he has a seat on the city council. Back in the early ’90s, when he was first released from prison, Barry ran for a council seat before returning to the mayor’s office. According to Wikipedia, his first post-incarceration campaign slogan was “He may not be perfect, but he’s perfect for D.C.” Wikipedia is unreliable, of course, so you can take those words or leave them. But even if they and the list of outlandish quotations aren’t all true?...
...theme of early April's meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, a political and economic forum for eight South Asian countries, was "connectivity." Despite the fact that this talkfest slogan was so obvious as to be meaningless, regional leaders took it seriously enough. During the meeting they agreed to work toward a South Asian community that has a "smooth flow of goods, services, peoples, technologies, knowledge, capital, culture and ideas ..." Yet even as the agreement was being drafted, bureaucrat underlings back home were contemplating new ways to separate themselves from neighboring countries-not through trade barriers...
Restoration of order became the slogan of the day, and Gorbachev seems to believe in it as much as the party, the army and the KGB. "In some ways," says a U.S. State Department official, "it was the resurgence of nationalism that justified the resurgence of the right." Gorbachev has replaced his original team of reformers with hacks from the party Central Committee. He has shown the fist to separatists in the Baltics, and he has put joint army and police patrols onto the streets of the cities...
...seriousness with which they regard their craft. “A great air guitarist is a true artist,” says Jung.DEFINING ‘AIRNESS’Equal parts sporting event, performance art, and party pastime, air guitar also promotes non-violence with an oft-said pacifist slogan, “Make Air, Not War.” “They say that if everyone picked up an air guitar, they would have to drop their weapons and thus war would cease and peace would reign,” says Miller. “I think that...
...Turn on, tune in, drop out” should be the adopted slogan of the Quincy Cage—but hold the drugs and emphasize the “drop out.” A venue for student bands in the basement of New Quincy, the Cage has closed for the remainder of the year, part of renovations to increase Quincy’s accessibility, which include raising the floor of the Junior Common Room and installing an elevator. On March 21, Cage liaisons were informed that the space which had played host to nearly a dozen shows last year...