Word: touts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israelis are annoyed that bank officials continued to tout their stocks last year even as prices fell. Rumors that some bank executives were simultaneously selling their own shares have increased the public's ire. Said one bitter investor, whose banker had persuaded him to keep his stock: "I was patriotic and rescinded my sell order. I lost about 70% of my pension money as a result." The crisis has sparked numerous lawsuits and demands for investigations. "The complicity and duplicity of the banks and the government are something that deserves being looked into," says Joseph Morgenstern, a Tel Aviv...
...tout the heckling of the Secretary of Defense as an attack on the principle of free speech, as the majority has done it its editorial, seems more than a little bit strange. Secretary Weinberger has at his disposal untold millions of dollars that can go toward airing the point of view of the Reagan Administration. Weinberger also has a corps of reporters around him to relay his every thought to the front pages of newspapers, the covers of magazines and the major wire services. The Secretary, in short, has virtually unlimited access to all the major media, a "freedom...
...Sound of Music, based on the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical comedy, satisfies nearly all the requirements for what moviemakers tout as wholesome family entertainment. It is tuneful, cheerful and colorful-exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. It celebrates courage-the real-life daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Though Director Robert Wise has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults.' In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice...
...stars and toques, bursting open with emphatic recommendations and indignant dismissals in unprecedented profusion; if they could talk, there would be an argument. The best hotel in Paris? The finest painting in the Prado? The tastiest little trattoria in Trastevere? Guidebooks, those quirky, opinionated and impassioned travelers' aids tout the virtues of everything from a stroll down the Strand to a tour of the catacombs. A sampling of the more comprehensive...
...White House ceremony, the Administration will evidently offer little more than verbal encouragement for reform. Even while praising the commission's work, President Reagan reiterated his belief that "parents, not the Government, have the primary responsibility for the education of their children." (He then went on to tout tuition tax credits, school prayer and the abolition of the Department of Education, subjects unrelated to and conceivably at odds with the findings of the report.) Local and state agencies, however, may be willing to spend more on education. Says Columbia University Education Historian Diane Ravitch: "Polls show that people...