Word: spinnings
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...itself, Jamieson's double play was intelligent--it prevented the go-ahead run from scoring and got two outs for the price of one--but Walsh's spin made it that much better...
...itself, Jamieson's double play was intelligent--it prevented the go-ahead run from scoring and got two outs for the price of one--but Walsh's spin made it that much better...
...recently privatized Telecom only last November, promised to cut costs $560 million a year, including a staff cut of 40,000 employees, nearly a third of the company's total, if shareholders reject the Olivetti bid. Olivetti in turn promised to cut the staff by 12,000 and to spin off noncore operations if its $58 billion plan, among the largest hostile takeovers in history, is accepted. It's easy to forget that the most famous takeover battle of all time, R.J. Reynolds' 1988 bloody leveraged buyout of Nabisco, was valued at a paltry $25 billion. (The biggest merger...
...like any good meme, it has infected the culture. To quantify this "metamemetic" statement, I did a quick search of the World Wide Web. The adjectival form "memetic" clocked up 5,042 mentions. To put this into perspective, I compared a few other recently coined words or fashionable expressions. Spin doctor (or spin-doctor) got 1,412 mentions, dumbing down 3,905, docudrama (or docu-drama) 2,848, sociobiology 6,679, zippergate 1,752, studmuffin 776, post-structural (or poststructural...
Still, Office 2000 attempts to spin the Microsoft web even further, adding tools that will benefit mainly corporate, rather than home, users. The Web, in fact, is what the millennial Office is all about. Virtually every program is designed to interact with the Net. When you create a Word document, for instance, you can save it in the Web's native language, HTML, and upload it to your website. Or add hypertext links to your Word file, or implant e-mail addresses without knowing how to write a line of code. And when Word converts your text to HTML...