Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slobodan Milosevic bombed out of Kosovo? Yes, say the White House spin doctors, eager to proclaim victory for a "Clinton Doctrine" of using limited military force to achieve limited goals. No, say Western military analysts surveying the bomb damage now that the dust has settled. Monday?s New York Times reports that NATO forces have discovered, upon entering Kosovo and observing the Serb withdrawal, that the damage inflicted on the Yugoslav army was considerably less than had been initially claimed by the alliance. "NATO hit a lot of dummy and deception targets," a former alliance commander was quoted as telling...
...worries about whether Russian President Boris Yeltsin was in control of his own military, or whether he had sanctioned the early troop movement as a concession to hard-line generals dismayed by Russia's lack of influence in Kosovo. Publicly, however, U.S. officials tried to put the best spin on the situation. "We would like them to participate [in the peacekeeping mission]," said Defense Secretary William Cohen. "Whether they arrive a few hours earlier or later really is not a significant factor...
Disney is not the only media conglomerate seeking to shine a light on its ventures in cyberspace. NBC is in the process of merging its Net properties with Xoom.com and Snap.com to form a new publicly traded company, NBC Internet. CBS has said it intends to spin off its stakes in Marketwatch.com Sportsline.com and other Web assets by the end of the year. And Viacom wants to do something similar with mtv.com vh1.com and other spawn of its cable holdings...
...chip in each detachable limb. He has a camera in his nose. He chases after balls, as long as they're hot pink. He walks on all fours--a major cybernetic achievement, I'm told. He wags his tail freely and waves a paw cheerily. He can spin his limbs around, get to his feet when he's lying on his back--another giant leap for robotkind--and take a virtual leak. But AIBO can be willful too. His eyes go red if you pat him too hard. If he can't quite reach his hot-pink ball, he will...
Then there are those folks who altered history but in ways that make us a little bit squeamish. They launched notions that we're not all that proud of and that may have engendered consequences we regret. Edward Bernays, the father of public relations (what we now blithely call spin), figured out how to get people to buy things they did not really want and feel things they did not really believe in. His legacy may be political campaigns without content, women who thought Virginia Slims were liberating, and an epidemic of credit-card debt...