Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While reform candidates shrank from direct contact with the people, offering only boring TV speeches and glum-faced round-table discussions on esoteric subjects during the election campaign, Zhirinovsky held regular Saturday- afternoon street-corner rallies drawing crowds that numbered in the thousands. For every constituency, he designed a tailor-made message. The military received pledges of a resurrected and expanded Russian Empire. Fixed- income pensioners and students were promised a decent standard of living. Crime-weary citizens were assured that gang leaders would be executed. Meanwhile, foreigners were offered up as scapegoats, and Jews were blamed for provoking anti...
...killed by imported guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable to the system that tracks motor-vehicle deaths -- and which helps lawmakers tailor car and highway safety laws to real perils of the road -- it would identify gun victims and shooting incidents in greater detail...
Boyle thinks she's saying something new-- or interesting, for that matter. Reacting against academic feminism, or what she thinks is academic feminism, Boyle concludes that being a "conservative feminist" means not only living the life of tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, but also wanting children and baking for them "the best cinnamon oatmeal chocolate chip cookies." (Did you get that recipe from Hillary, Karen?) To her, being a mother isn't enough, and a woman who wants to stay at home with her children simply isn't fighting the good fight. In short, it's difficult to place a distinction...
...Until this decade, social services have come in only a few sizes," he said. "We don't have to do that anymore. We think we have the capacity to empower each community with a tailor-made response...
...tensions between old-timers and new arrivals remain. George Karafilidis, a tailor whose Greek family has owned a business in Lowell for 35 years, complains that newcomers are ruining his neighborhood. When a reporter reminds him that his relatives were immigrants, Karafilidis flies into a rage and bellows, "Don't come in here and talk to me about immigrants...