Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peninsula incident demonstrated the extent to which the Holocaust has become little more than a rhetorical grab bag, one that any Tom, Dick or Harry feels free to reach into any time he needs an argumentative trump-card. Similarly, the debate question exemplified the recklessness with which people tend to throw around the vocabulary of mass-destruction. You want to talk about the discrimination that exists in the criminal justice system, you call it a "genocide." You disagree with someone's brand of politics, you affix the Nazi swastika to his or her door--that seems to be the name...
...some shareholders remember the boom-boom 1980s, when newspaper profit margins routinely approached 20%. Cold reality hit along with the recession in the early 1990s: retailing, then retail advertising, then newspapers dependent on such advertising suffered, and profits fell. Ridder insists that the financial pressures on all papers tend to be cyclical and that in fact Knight-Ridder has recently upped the percentage of revenue it spends in the newsroom. Journalists who complain about cost cutting, says Ridder, "have very short memories...
...anyone who has worked for an individual press baron knows, these men can be insidious meddlers. On the other hand, sometimes a news operation can be editorially insulated within a large corporation, either because of its heritage or because of a pragmatic realization that intrusive shenanigans tend to backfire publicly and cause more trouble than they are worth...
...anyone who has worked for an individual press baron knows, these men can be insidious meddlers. On the other hand, sometimes a news operation can be editorially insulated within a large corporation, either because of its heritage or because of a pragmatic realization that intrusive shenanigans tend to backfire publicly and cause more trouble than they are worth...
...Cone, Andy Pettitte, and Jimmy Key) but have perhaps the best bullpen in baseball. All of which you would think would make for a rather mundane, pitcher's duel series that should favor Atlanta. But at least half of the games will be played in New York, where fans tend to enter into the field of play, and anything can happen. Play ball! -->