Word: tweaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press asked for what it got. Just like the White House Correspondents' Dinner later in the spring, this affair seeks out performers to act as surrogates to tweak, if not debase, people in power. But for the first time, the correspondents' association sent a formal letter of apology to the President. "What did the organization think they were getting when they invited Imus? I fault them," said Tom Brokaw. abc's Jackie Judd, one of the dinner's organizers, said, "We wanted some discomfort, but not that much." After the show, White House press secretary Michael McCurry called C-SPAN...
...upshot: a business expansion that is at some risk of dying of old age (it began in March 1991) needs more stimulus than the Fed is giving it. Or so say many economists. Last week's tweak is "too little, too late," argues Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist of Chemical Bank: "A quarter point will help a wee bit, but it's going to take more than that to get this economy going." One signpost: house sales lately have been flat, despite a drop in mortgage rates...
...past three years, and according to product manager Jean-Karl Carpano of Rossignol, "We could see every other person on a snowboard by 2005." There are some isolated ski areas that prohibit snowboarding, but the vast majority caters to the ever increasing numbers of boarders who want to tweak the halfpipes and bonk some fat air (ride the parabolic-shaped chutes and hit a really good jump). As Bill Adams, director of the Mount Mansfield Ski School in Stowe, Vermont, says, "They have saved the industry's butt...
GEOMETRY FOR A ROMANTIC COMedy: triangle involving a married couple and another woman. The French do this in their sleep, maybe in their dreams. Since the formula is so familiar, they know the trick is to tweak it. Remember Too Beautiful for You, where Gerard Depardieu spurns gorgeous wife Carole Bouquet for dumpy secretary Josiane Balasko? This time writing and directing as well as starring, Balasko has wrung another variation on the old gag. Husband, wife, lesbian interloper. French Twist...
...turned into issues in debates over economic policy. Any reform that will lead to greater national prosperity will also help the rich get richer. Short of a communist takeover, the rich seem to find ways to get richer no matter what. Therefore, to oppose a worthy reform just to tweak Forbes and deny him the goodies is foolish. But that is what Lewis seems to be doing as self-appointed tweaker...