Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elections, but his last may have come at a higher price than even he intended to pay. The way he has run this time could do as much to shape his second term as anything he actually promised to do. After all the speeches and all the spin, the one sure mandate of the 1996 election is for both parties to fix the money system before we have to trust in it again...
...context of the previous quarters (see chart). That means both candidates may be wrong. Consider: 210,000 new jobs were created in October. Is the economy then speeding up again? The answer may become clearer in the months ahead, as new data come out, minus the political spin...
...frenzy with which they went about their work. At the same time, Jewell has not been entirely powerless. While he saw his humdrum life demolished by the press pack, Jewell could also suddenly command a microphone at any time, and he began to put out his own bits of spin. Now he has hooked up with lawyers who plan to sue a growing list of people. The lesson may be, for these modern times, give the ordinary guy a ton of publicity--good or bad--and a couple of attorneys, and he can take on the world...
...sorry, but I just can't do it. Yes, I saw the monthly media directive from the Trilateral Commission--the bulletin that tells the media the spin we're to put on certain stories. I'm O.K. with the go-negative-on-Dole stuff and the Richard-Jewell-is-a-long-suffering-victim mandate. But I can't bring myself to trash Louis Rossetto and Wired like the rest of my media sibs...
...played a slyly naive New York journalist, with a humor and style that is often believable, though sometimes overdone. John Randolph, of Prizzi's Honor fame, brilliantly portrayed an "authentic," folksy political fossil who "holds court" with wry witticisms and hackneyed observations. Finally, Richard Kind of TV's Spin City and Samantha Bennett colorfully reflected the vanity, insecurity and ambition that consume the reporters and their reporting...