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This is where the White House does not want Democrats to get traction. If Bush's Iraq policies are a tough sell with voters, at least he has enjoyed credibility as a terrorism fighter overall. During the summer, Republican consultants watching focus groups of married women with children, a sector that strongly supported Bush's re-election, found that the mothers often asked questions about Iraq like "Does this go on forever?" But if the women were reminded of Iraq in the context of a war on terrorism--say, by being shown a video of a plane flying into...
...sophisticated social-psychological explorations of Reeves's situation at the time of his death. It wants to melodramatize it more than it wants to fully understand it. The jealous girlfriend business doesn't go anywhere beyond the conventional, but the affair with the married woman does have some traction, in that Toni Mannix - played with lusty high spirits by Diane Lane - was the wife of Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins), who was Louis B. Mayer's enforcer at M-G-M, the man who knew all the studio's secrets, scandalous and otherwise, and made sure they stayed secret...
...could take five years, Krogner says, for Esprit to gain traction in the U.S. market. But he's starting to see some positive results. U.S. sales surged 83% in the first half of the 2005-06 fiscal year. "Why shouldn't we make it in America?" he asks. "It's our home." Or at least...
These classes tend to be easy, fun, and are a good way to gain some traction in what can often be an uncertain year for the “new meat.” (Read: You will take most of your exams still drunk.) Or, if you’re feeling daring or have been living in a cave your whole childhood, take a language that you have never encountered previously—something off the beaten path. Classes in uncommon languages tend to be much smaller and involve a high degree of personal attention with top-notch professors...
...AARP crowd. Which means, I think, that cheapish movies can be cheaply, effectively promoted via the Net - more bad news for the people who sell display ads for the newspapers. I don't think, however, that the next Meryl Streep film is likely to gain a lot of traction among the bloggers. It'll still have to be sold the old-fashioned way, with good reviews, good word of mouth and maybe an Oscar campaign. Shoot! Once again technology fails us in an area where movies need all the help they...