Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, and another 145 in the past five. Under economic pressure, several insurance firms began an aggressive public relations campaign, including up to $10 million worth of hard-hitting "advocacy advertisements" in publications such as TIME, Wall Street Journal and New Republic. The ads point to "windfall awards" and suggest that jurors must eventually pay for them through higher premiums...
Academic experts believe both sides are overreacting. Says Yale Law Professor Guido Calabresi: "Those ads are outrageously one-sided, even silly. They suggest that the occasional huge jury verdict drives up rates, when the real cause is overpayment of small claims. But the insurers clearly have a First Amendment right to influence legislation." Adds University of Illinois Professor Jeffrey O'Connell: "A court clampdown on advertising is a raw, brutal way of handling the problem. Plaintiffs' lawyers are adequately protected by voir dire [jury selection] procedure." Most analysts doubt the trial lawyers will succeed in muffling the insurers...
...trio of Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Kogan and Lynn Chang returns to Harvard for the thousandth time this Saturday, but their past performances do indeed suggest that they are well worth hearing. Pianist Kogan, violinist Chang and cellist Ma perform an all-Beethoven concert with the Sud Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by Valerie Taylor, in a Phillips Brooks House Benefit Concert. The program includes Beethoven's Trio in B flat opus 11, his Triple Concerto, and his Violin Concerto in D Major. Chang and Kogan played the Franck Violin and Piano Sonata in an excellent and moving concert last year. They...
...Invent some "yesable propositions"--Suggest some actions they might conceivably be expected to take that would at least help solve the conflict. These proposals cannot be in the form of "You should do something about your army," but should be specific enough so that merely saying "yes" to them paves the way for the action to be undertaken...
...SUCCESS of Randy Newman's "Short People," a musical litany of the faults and failings of shorter folk, reminds us that our country is still overly concerned with physical appearance and height. Sales of platform shoes suggest there are many people out there who wish they were taller. The short man is a popular staple of circus freak shows. Crowds flock to basketball arenas partly to gawk at the scantily-clad seven-foot behemoths lumbering around the court...