Word: truisms
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...leading role is in the creation of nuclear power plants. He wants the U.S. to become energy independent, and he views nuclear power as a crucial part of the mix. Adopting the nuclear option may accommodate an economic truth, but Tsongas has been quick to recognize a different, political truism: the fact that many Democratic voters abhor nuclear power. His speeches these days downplay nuclear's role in achieving energy independence, but on paper Tsongas notes that America's 112 nuclear plants produced the energy to cut the U.S. oil-import bill by $4.7 billion in 1989. On the basis...
Less stress is also a plus. It's a truism that sitting in a large room with 570 other stressed-out students is inherently more stressful than being in a library or your own room. Besides, then you don't have to put up with that dork in the row in front of you who keeps sniffling every five seconds, or the premed behind you incessantly clicking her 20-color premed...
This is an expert coroner's report that could have been a requiem for a bloated industry. But in its malicious detail, the book verifies a Hollywood truism: not that it's a tragedy when a movie goes wrong, but that it's a miracle when anything goes right...
Each of the new elixirs sells for about $200 an ounce (with the lighter eau de toilette costing substantially less). The marketing truism is that perfume is an affordable luxury; the woman who can't afford a Chanel suit can buy the fragrance. But if romance is on the rise now, so is frugality. Says marketing consultant Carol Colman: "Consumers might question cutting off something for the kids in order to buy a bottle of perfume, when there are three or four on the dresser already...
...half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half. For a breathless first hour, the film zips along in a textbook display of plot planting and showmanship. But then it stumbles over its own ambitions before settling for a conventional climax with a long fuse. It's a truism, and a true one, that people remember the first lines of novels and the last scenes of movies. The best films accelerate, accumulate, pay off. But Cameron can't quite deliver on the promise of his premise...