Word: swayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Presidents to figure out a few keys to success. The first is not leaking disagreements with the boss. Gore has also shouldered thankless but meaty tasks that give him something to attend to besides foreign funerals: reinventing government, overhauling telecommunications law, smoothing relations with Moscow. But part of his sway in the White House flows from being not just an inside guy. His book Earth in the Balance, linking family and ecological dysfunction, sold more than 500,000 copies. He has independent stature because of his decades of patient work on arms control, TV violence, putting computers in classrooms...
...addition, there is an obvious generation gap between CAA's Old Guard and the Young Turks who hold sway over many of the agency's most valuable clients. The awkward management structure Ovitz put in place before his departure had representatives of the younger generation in charge of operations, with oversight provided by three older co-chairmen...
Experts make an important distinction between talented kids and true prodigies: a prodigy instinctively knows his rare gifts and is almost impossible to control or sway. "The power and force of what that child wants to do is coming from within," says David Henry Feldman, a developmental psychologist who is head of the Eliot-Pearson Child Development Department at Tufts University. "You'd almost have to kill that child to keep him or her from doing what he or she wants." Rita May, who brought up her family in Chapel Hill, found herself in that position when her son David...
...fashion houses of Paris are throwing a major hissy fit. They are the masters of fashion. And yet anyone with an Internet account can now get the latest in haute couture almost as soon as the models sway down the narrow catwalks--minus the champagne, neodisco music, and oohs and ahs from the audience. Photos of collections are being uploaded into the World Wide Web just hours after shows end (one site is First View: http://www.firstview.com) As a result, cheap knockoff artists can get an even quicker head start on designers in the race to retail stores--a race...
...people in history and literature tend to sway a little more towards history or a little more towards literature," he says...