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After an unforgettable pasting from Ronald Reagan in 1984, the Democratic National Committee launched a survey called "Democrats Listening to America" to find out what the voters wanted. One answer came as a rude surprise. "Fairness," a favorite party theme in the 1982 and 1984 elections, was a turnoff to most of the 5,500 voters polled, 90% of whom identified themselves as middle class. "They see it as a code word meaning giveaway," said Frank O'Brien, a fund raiser for the D.N.C. "To them, fairness means not me but some other...
...other services, including facials and waxing. “I think there’s been the biggest change in waxing,” Bova says. Some girls agree with Katy A. Long ’05, who maintains that waxing is completely unacceptable, “the biggest turnoff ever.” However, Bova says she thinks that men are becoming particularly fussy over their eyebrows. “It’s just not popular to have messy eyebrows,’ she says...
...like this are the solution, not the problem. Our job is to prove that by succeeding - and live better, fuller lives for it." - By Bruce Crumley BOHEMIA: E.U. HEADACHES For many people, headcheese - a seasoned loaf customarily made of pig's- head meat molded in aspic - is a culinary turnoff. But for Jirí Hlavácek, a butcher in Susice, south Bohemia, it was for years an economic lifeline. A grocer by profession, Hlavácek went into the meat business in 1991 at the exact same spot where, four decades earlier, Czechoslovakia's communists confiscated his grandfather...
...huge, funky rooms designed by onetime British Elle Decoration editor Ilse Crawford and unique services such as child care on weekends and private movie screenings, it's no surprise the hotel has starred in a Sex and the City episode. If the reported 500-plus waitlist is a turnoff, no need to leave the neighborhood: Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson--of The Park restaurant--have opened the porthole-punctuated Maritime Hotel on Ninth Avenue at 16th Street. With its 10,000-sq.-ft. outdoor public garden and '60s-style Pop Art decor, this place is already a magnet for Victoria...
...West Bromwich Building Society in England's West Midlands, which recently began to offer Shari'a-compliant mortgages. And there are other obstacles. Because the universe of Shari'a-compliant stocks is limited, funds based on this type of investing tend to under-perform the market - an investor turnoff. Scandal has also taken its toll - in 2000, 17 former managers of the Dubai Islamic Bank were convicted of embezzling millions of dollars of investors' money. "Islamic banking is still a virgin territory," notes Rumman Faruqi, ceo of the London-based Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance. "We have...