Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Administration officials fear that the popular mood might spin when the ground fighting begins. "So far, the U.S. casualties have been so low that people haven't really had to view this war in terms of the cost in lives," admits a White House official. Others note that patriotism is easy on the cheap -- and that nothing would concentrate the public mind more quickly than reinstitution of the draft. "That would really put the fat in the fire," says Dallek. Such a move is unlikely, however, since Bush said at a press conference last week that he had "absolutely...
Third seed George Polsky cleared the courts in a jiffy. The senior, famous for his ability to fight to the bitter end, didn't even have a chance to show his tenacity. Polsky's speed and an innovative spin-around-shot easily outwitted Sophomore Tad Hogan's firm rails...
...sold more than 41 million copies of Baby-Sitters books since the series, which now runs to 40 volumes, began in August 1986. About 6 million copies of a companion series, Baby-Sitters Little Sister, for slightly younger readers, have been snatched up in just two years. Now the spin-offs are descending. Baby-Sitters calendars and school planners are already on the market, as are two videos. Milton Bradley sells a Baby-Sitters board game, and Remco Toys plans a new line of Baby-Sitters dolls, complete with a closetful of outfits and tiny tots to tend...
...whose popularity rivals that of Mickey Mouse. But fads are subject to the law of gravity. Even as it was announcing record earnings for 1990, the world's largest computer-game maker confirmed last week what retailers have been saying for months: the Nintendo market has gone into a spin...
Other recent diplomatic efforts are still more objectionable to the Bush Administration and are thus unlikely to bring meaningful results. King Hussein peddled his proposed solution during his spin through Europe. He offered a face-saving plan that might, for instance, allow Saddam to retain the strategically placed Bubiyan and Warbah islands, as well as the tip of the banana-shaped Rumaila oilfield that dips slightly into Kuwait from Iraq. Washington says a liberated Kuwait could make these and any other concessions to Baghdad it chooses but vehemently opposes rewarding Iraq's aggression with such promises before a pullout...