Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drama. Not content with one intermission during the two-and-a-half-hour extravaganza, he threw in a second, just to flesh things out. Perhaps he wanted to give suicidal viewers an opportunity to make a bid for freedom. The acting was usually wooden, and the transparent attempts to throw in the odd whimsical flourish served only to emphasize how staid and slow the production was. No amount of thought-provoking direction and visionary acting can compensate for the basic dramatic necessity of maintaining brisk and lively delivery...
...almost as much bandwidth as fiber. They pointed out that by using fiber to bring the signal to within a few blocks of each home and coaxial cable to carry it the rest of the way, the cable companies could get a "twofer": they could throw away those cranky amplifiers (giving them a system that has more capacity and is easier to maintain) and get two-way interactivity almost cost- free...
...Giants' new managing partner, tells it, signing Bonds was a prudent move. "We had three guys playing left field last year at $2.5 million," he explains. "People keep talking about $43 million for Bonds, but he's getting less than the $7 million average during the first year. You throw in 150,000 more fans, and that's $1.5 million off that cost. And we have a much better team." This kind of baseball economics makes as much sense as Ronald Reagan's promise to balance the budget by cutting taxes and increasing defense spending...
...Everything Bradley says is right, but the student-exchange stuff just isn't sexy," says a Clinton aide. "We'll throw a few more bucks at the program, sure, but we'll mostly rely on exhorting Americans to take on the burden themselves, through private groups and with private money." That means the number of Russians in the U.S. will never be as high as it should be if the President is serious when he says "promoting democracy in Russia" is the "great security challenge...
...QUITE DISAPPEARED from the table. They lurked, in the form of two strategic-arms agreements yet to be put into full effect, as reminders of the cost of failing. But when Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin took their seats for Saturday's opening summit session, held in Vancouver, the throw weights on the agenda were denominated less in nuclear megatonnage than in dollars and acres of private farmland and doses of medicine and people-to- people exchanges. The two Presidents spent most of their time discussing how best to stabilize and begin mending the crippled Russian economy, largely through transfusions...