Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CAMBRIDGE--The war of memos between the Physics and Biology Department raged on yesterday as Acting Chair of the Physics Department Quan-Tum Spin accused Biology of being "a powerhouse of pre-medical preparation," and "a sloppy, poor excuse for an academic discipline...
...field. Assuming you can even make contact (with a rounded bat no less), a swing only 1/100th of a second too late and the ball sails foul. This, of course, does not even account for the pitcher's guile--changing locations of the pitch or putting a nasty spin on the ball that causes it to dive out of the strike zone at the last second...
...show rank among the Top Ten videos for children. Kids are, literally, so eager to get their hands on the Turtles that Playmates Toys Inc.'s action figures of the heroes were the third biggest-selling toy last Christmas (after Barbie and Nintendo). All told, some 300 Turtle merchandising spin-offs ranging from breakfast cereals to skateboards snapped up more than $100 million in sales last year. "They have just taken over the toy and entertainment industry," says Lynn Hejtmanek, director of marketing for Ultra Software Corp., which has sold more than 1.4 million copies of a Ninja Turtle game...
Increasingly concerned that events might spin out of control, the Bush Administration stopped soft-pedaling its support for the Lithuanians and made it clear to Gorbachev that military intervention would seriously damage both perestroika and East-West relations. Said Bush: "Any attempt to coerce or intimidate or forcibly intervene against the Lithuanian people is bound to backfire...
...airtime for everything / from smokers' rights and rap records to haute couture and the Trump bust-up. And the White House has raised press manipulation to a virtual art form, often for the narrowest political motives. The Reagan Administration, led by the Great Persuader himself, was notorious for its spin control. Last week the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based watchdog group, issued a report detailing nearly 100 instances of news orchestration, press restrictions and disinformation by the Bush Administration...