Word: touts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a serious lack of performance space at the University for student groups Harvard loves to tout the diversity of its student body, and musically and theatrically incluined undergraduates certainly figure highly in that diversity. But the University has not backed up its glowing statements with adequate performance space...
While the courtroom was the main battleground in the Paramount-vs.-Time struggle, some unexpected lobbyists emerged to tout the Time-Warner combination. Director-producer Steven Spielberg, a close friend of Ross's, expressed his support in a telephone talk with the Warner chairman and Nicholas. Spielberg collaborator George Lucas, who distributes their Indiana Jones films through Paramount, wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal last week that praised the Time-Warner deal for promising "steadily increasing values" and attacked Paramount for "contributing to the further destabilization of the entertainment industry and the U.S. economy...
Snyder lost his respectability and his job as a television tout when he branched out into anthropology and started handicapping black athletes' thighs. Previously, neither CBS nor its audience appeared to mind his old gambling conviction. (Nobody cares or even recalls that President Ford also pardoned Jimmy.) Softened memories are measures of attitudes...
When the Afro-American Studies Department extended a tenure offer to a University of Wisconsin literary scholar this year, administrators and members of the department--typically close-mouthed about appointments before they are finalized--were eager to tout the move...
...will be hard pressed to heal the U.S.-West German split over SNF negotiations. Moscow moved swiftly, and with apparent success, to keep the rift open. Shevardnadze used a scheduled trip to Bonn Friday afternoon for meetings with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to tout the Soviet proposal. He added a touch of salt to the new Soviet sweetness, warning that if the U.S. expands the reach of its short- range launchers as planned, the Soviet reaction might be to develop a new short-range rocket...