Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest is mired in some serious GOP infighting. In a particularly poignant example Thursday, a $2 billion cut in foreign aid favored by the party's fiscal hawks (for the money) and neo-isolationists (for the principle) was dragged down by a third GOP faction that wanted to tack on anti-abortion provisions. While Clinton stands back and drawls about "sitting down and working this out" even as his promised vetoes loom, the GOP is stuck with a vow they can't be seen breaking and a tableful of work they can't seem to get done...
...second sign in a week that Harvard is taking a new tack in its relationship with Boston, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine spoke yesterday to local businesspeople at Boston's Four Seasons Hotel...
Having long ago disregarded the tack of saving his attacks for members of the opposing party, Steve Forbes on Saturday opened up on George W. Bush and several other prominent GOP members. Speaking before California's Orange County Republicans, Forbes attacked Bush and Michigan Governor John Engler for failing to support a ballot initiative in Michigan creating a school voucher system. "Leadership means acting from principle," Forbes said. "I spoke out in favor of that referendum. Governor Bush has been silent." Throw in another mention of his longstanding criticism of Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist for saying he would support...
...marketing mavens at Pharmacia & Upjohn may be onto an elemental truth: Men who are worried about losing their hair are far more obsessive about their scalps than men who have actually stared into the shiny face of baldness. And in the ongoing tradition of avoidance, this new marketing tack allows men who harbor dark fears about their follicles? future to take decisive action to stave off potential hair loss, all while avoiding the dreaded ?b? word. ?The new campaign doesn?t say: You?re a bald person,? the campaign?s creative director told the Journal. ?It?s about offering...
Just because a city native is less likely to tack on meaningless pleasantries to his or her comments doesn't mean that he or she is being mean. Underneath that gruff, hurried exterior New Yorkers are human beings too, with the same compassion and caring that mid-Westerners have. But strangers will not get a "hello, how are you?" from us--why should they? Do we know? Do we honestly care how they're felling? No, of course not and such superficial behavior is beneath New Yorkers...