Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Money and meanness. Those are the factors for which this year's election is likely to be remembered, long after calculations about shifts in party power and legislative policy are forgotten. Well, anyway, until 1984, when, it is altogether too possible, candidates' spending will spin still further into the stratosphere and their ads will become yet more venomous...
...Observes David Healy of Drexel Burnham Lambert: "I don't think the strike threatens Chrysler's survival. It is beginning as a nuisance, but it could be severely disruptive if it continues." The financially fragile company can survive a skid, in other words, if not a total spin...
...traditions proud. With the flourishing of that tolerance, the young whites and blacks of Ole Miss have more in common than they may for the moment think. They spring mutually from a traditional order and, more than any other young Americans, they know how to make a story and spin a tale. Public high school graduating classes last spring were the first in which whites and blacks attended all twelve grades together. After all of its pain, and the difficulty to come, this could be, in truth, the only society in America where "the great plan," as the rest...
...stay down on the farm? Can it be that somewhere in the great Midwest there is a native-born comedian who opens a meeting of the Jaycees with seven minutes of stand-up comedy, then brings on the other members of the chamber to sit on a sofa and spin out their schemes and notions for promotion? Is there, somewhere, another Johnny Carson...
Those who know the tunnels--the B&G workers who service the pipes, and Thomas Tribal, Harvard's manager of Energy and Systems-rarely spin such yarns, and instead speak of the utility of these energy-efficient heating highways. Behind this steam screen of infamy and intrigue is really an emphatically nuts and bolts operation that supplies heat to most of the University...