Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview last week, Lauren said Swing aims for the lowa factory worker as much as the college-educated preppie. "Chris Barron (the Spin Doctors' lead singer whom the magazine profiled in its first issue) lives on a farm in Washington," he offers...
Other stories printed in the November premiere issue are titled How to Become a Recording Mogul; American and Disaffected at Oxford; Mountain Biking and Me (sponsored by Polo Sport); and A History Lesson with the Spin Doctors' Lead. The heart of the magazine is a Fortune take-off that attempts to portray America's Most Powerful 20-Somethings. That Julia Roberts qualifies for the list is symbolic of the standards. But even more significant is the shallowness of the portraits, including quotations lifted from the interviews of other magazines...
...been elected on a platform of change, Panetta explained, and now the voters had expressed a desire for even more change -- in other words, the historic rejection of Democratic candidates was in some sense an extension of the Clinton mandate. That afternoon the President gave % matters his own spin: It wasn't that voters were upset about what his Administration had done; rather, they were angry that they didn't feel more involved in the governmental process...
...White House, no one was ready to hear that message. Last Tuesday afternoon, chief of staff Leon Panetta gathered his downcast political team to plot how to put spin control on various election outcomes: a modest loss, a big loss and what he called "a blowout scenario." At one point, aide George Stephanopoulos pushed himself back from the mahogany table in Panetta's office and left. When he returned -- stone-faced, exit-poll results in hand -- he told the group, "We're in deep trouble...
Returning to its retailing roots, Sears, Roebuck announced it would spin off its $9 billion stake in Allstate, the nation's second largest insurer of homes and autos...