Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be even more significant. For many students, this will be their first opportunity to help choose a U.S. president. In the upcoming elections, we urge all voters to focus on the current issues and to resist being swayed by the barrage of slick political advertising designed by campaign spin doctors...
Deciding who gets the death penalty is a "spin of the roulette wheel," he said...
DOOM and its spin-offs were a big hit, partly because they arrived just as the 'Net was taking off. Users whose computers were attached to local area networks, like the HSDN at Harvard, quickly became engrossed in a world of three-dimensional shootouts and confrontations...
...Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. From 1979 to 1981 he played Carroll O'Connor's business partner in an All in the Family spin-off, Archie Bunker's Place...
Television coverage has been even more susceptible to the game-centered approach to the campaign. In recent weeks, the Sunday morning "news" shows, featuring the candidates and their spin doctors, have focused their discussions on strategy-based questions as well as the usual soundbite-generators. ("Exactly when will Senator Gramm endorse Senator Dole?" "Can Alexander compete with Dole's money?" "Could you support Buchanan as the nominee...