Word: tours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dawn on the day he launched his official presidential-announcement tour, Senator John McCain went home again to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he promised 4,000 cheering midshipmen that, win or lose, he would "keep faith with the values I learned here. I hope I make you as proud of me as I am proud of you." He sounded the same theme before a noontime crowd in Nashua, N.H., as he conjured up the moment when a President has to divine "the reasons for, and the risks of, committing our children to our defense." He reminded those gathered that...
Last July, after a leak at a reactor in Fukui prefecture, operators gave 90 visitors a tour outside the plant, even though they hadn't found the source of the leak and didn't know the extent of the damage. Videotapes of another plant accident were tampered with by a plant official. In 1997 managers at another plant in Tokaimura tried to cover up an explosion that left 37 workers contaminated by radiation. The revelation prompted then Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to declare, "I am so angry, I cannot utter a word." But his apoplexy effected little change...
...then there is Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing, a beautiful album of light folk-pop--which could be a euphemism for "slow death." Davis divined a vast pool of potential buyers awakened by the Lilith Fair Tour, so Arista flogged the album at MTV and radio for months until the dam finally broke. At 7 million sold, Surfacing has become a Jewel-and Alanis-style blockbuster. No wonder the stymied Artist most of us still know as Prince beat a path to his door. His new Arista album debuts next month...
...college tour is designed in part to take advantage of the show's growing popularity on CNBC's primetime lineup...
...wanted to do the most dynamic kickoff to the tour," Reichblum said...