Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outcome. Focus, discipline, a stronger White House staff can help us, but everyone knows how the bottom line will be measured. It's the condition of the collective pocketbook on Election Day that counts." And no matter how clever a politician is, there is simply no way to spin a sense of economic well-being into an empty wallet...
What's in the news this month? Well, let's take a spin around the local TV dial...
...would be happy to see the plan defeated "so that we can start all over again and do it right. We want reform," he asserts, but experts estimate that the Clinton plan as it is developing will cost Americans $3,500 a year each on average, and "if costs spin out of control, the health-care system will suffer. We think the plan is reckless." The AMA will not say any such thing publicly, however, for fear of losing its bargaining leverage...
...shed for local TV news. These Action and Eyewitness news gangs have never exactly been mistaken for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. But increasingly -- and especially during the ratings-sweeps months of November, February and May -- they are becoming little more than extensions of the network prime-time schedule. Stories that spin off network programming have been around for years, but now they are a depressing cottage industry. Networks alert stations to promotable programming and suggest possible tie- ins; stories done by one station are fed to a central network clearinghouse so that other affiliates can pick them up. The line between...
...President, the press secretary reports blandly, has suffered "a slight circulatory problem of the head." That's spin doctor -- better yet, parody spin doctor -- for a stroke that has left the Commander in Chief an aspiring kumquat...