Word: spins
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...program were shut off from federal funding, Gold said that ACT would look into locating funding for a single year, and then try to "spin off" the program into another agency or a school. Cambridge Community Services, a program of which AC. is a part, has previously employed this strategy with some success. "Some of them do die," Gold said. "But some of them flourish...
Instead, the letter's purpose appears simply to massage Harvard's ego and spin the challenges facing the Administration in the most favorable light. When asked in an interview if the letter were not some kind of public relations ploy, the president rolled his eyes and said, "You know me better than that by now. It's not part of a public relations blitz, I promise you that, absolutely not. It's not me, it's not my nature...
Perhaps we should accept Rudenstine's spin as simply a light, "welcome back" message from the president. However, given Rudenstine's limited encounters with the Harvard community, we wish that he had made better use of this opportunity to substantively explore the challenges facing the University...
...normal justice that the system itself ended up in the dock. Verdicts are now coming down, and they are not pretty. From police irregularities to the issue of trial by jury itself, what the British writer G.K. Chesterton called "the awful court of judgment" has acquired a modern spin on the adjective...
Anxiety serves a similar useful purpose, so long as it doesn't spin out of control. Worrying is a rehearsal for danger; the act of fretting focuses the mind on a problem so it can search efficiently for solutions. The danger comes when worrying blocks thinking, becoming an end in itself or a path to resignation instead of perseverance. Overworrying about failing increases the likelihood of failure; a salesman so concerned about his falling sales that he can't bring himself to pick up the phone guarantees that his sales will fall even further...