Word: thin
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...game of winner-take-all, Alexander must pick his fights so he doesn't spread himself too thin and win nothing at all. In New York and Pennsylvania, he doesn't stand a chance because he's simply not on the ballot. And Dole's team is doing everything it can to keep him strapped down. "The Dole folks are really trying to crank up the Governors to freeze out Lamar," says a veteran G.O.P. campaign strategist. That may not be too difficult: privately, some Governors complain Alexander is a bit too slick for his own good, and they resent...
...however, focus on a dark underside of the picture that is often neglected. The number of jobs lost to foreign competition is hard to pin down; Buchanan's estimate of 300,000 wiped out as a result of the NAFTA treaty with Mexico and Canada seems plucked out of thin air. To the losers, though, it is a statistical abstraction to argue that the losses have been more than offset by job gains in export industries. Honda's success in Ohio does nothing to help Watsonville, California (pop. 33,798), where the unemployment rate has jumped to close...
...centralized rating system that is subject to review and approval by the government is totally inconsistent with the traditions of this country," says NBC general counsel Richard Cotton. "This legislation turns the fcc into Big Brother." Former CBS Broadcast Group president Howard Stringer argues, "The V chip is the thin end of a wedge. If you start putting chips in the television set to exclude things, it becomes an all-purpose hidden censor...
Pipher's view--and what, no doubt, helps make her work so popular--is that, for the most part, the culture, not the parents, are to blame. Pipher points out that girls enter junior high school faced with daunting magazine and movie images of glossy, thin, perfect women. She argues that pop culture is saturated with sex; violence against women is rampant; and drugs and alcohol are far more accessible than they were during her 1950s girlhood in a small Nebraska town. "I don't think the past was idyllic," says Pipher, 48, a mother of two whose husband...
Glee Club Lite, one of the four groups, produced and performed in the Sanders Theatre concert. The Opportunes, Dins and Tonics, Krokodiloes and On Thin Ice also appeared in the show...