Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military?s spin doctors appeared to do no better than their expensive anti-missile missile today. Choice item from the Pentagon statement on the THAAD failure: ?The target worked fine...
...finally you go for as much ancillary business as seems apt. There will be hundreds of Godzilla spin-offs. But for Private Ryan, DreamWorks canceled a G.I. Joe action figure modeled on Hanks. Maybe the muscles were...
...beard the lion in his lair and ask a federal appeals court flat out if a preliminary injunction prevents it from bundling the Internet Explorer browser into Windows 98. With the release date of Windows 98 fast approaching, Microsoft can't play chicken much longer. The company's spin on the matter makes the release of Windows 98 sound like some unpredictable natural phenomenon, like the migration of caribou, that would be unnatural to prevent, and Microsoft invokes the image of a pathetic, browserless Windows that "would bear little, if any, resemblance to Windows 98." Well, why didn't they...
...Michael Bolton Foundation, which purports to help women and children in distress, in 1995 gave away only 15% of the money it raised. The 1996 figures were missing. Bolton, who said the allegations made him "sick to [his] stomach," immediately hired a crew of suits, including an emergency spin doctor, to clear things up. Meanwhile, the charity announced that expenses were high in 1995 because of fund-raising events but that administrative costs were below the industry standard. Stay tuned for an anguished ballad about being a good...
Gates, for his part, after years of dismissing official Washington as a bunch of clueless and irrelevant bureaucrats, now has his own team of spin cyclists whirring into high gear. Redmond's roster boasts ex-Republican National Committee chairman and renowned spinmeister Haley Barbour, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Webber (a Newt Gingrich confidant) and former New Jersey Congressman Tom Downey (an Al Gore confidant). Edelman Worldwide, in the person of Reagan-era imagemaker Mike Deaver, is handling the company's overall Washington p.r. effort...