Word: vane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same can be said of the impassioned, impugned House managers, who, whatever the merits of their case, put a lie to the assumption that all politicians are driven solely by polls and survival instincts. One could wonder where their compass pointed, but no one mistook it for a weather vane. Henry Hyde argued that "there's no political profit in this. A President Gore would not be helpful to the Republican Party." But when Hyde faced the Senators, he challenged them to larger purposes: "I have always believed that there are issues of transcendent importance that you have...
...When I was first at The Crimson, [Crimson editors] tried to steal the Ibis," he says, referring to the brass mascot that formerly adorned the weather vane of the Lampoon castle on Mt. Auburn Street Shortly after this prank, the 'Poon retaliated...
Intel has ceased being just a Silicon Valley wonder. It has become a weather vane for an entire digital economy, a complete ecosystem of drive manufacturers, software houses and Web programmers whose businesses depend on escalating PC growth. Because Grove and his firm control the blueprints of the PC, he is in the unique position of being able to tell customers what to do. Intel sets release dates for new chips, dictating the pace of the computer industry with the confident aplomb of fashion designers raising or lowering hemlines. It's the sort of ironfisted market grip that rarely exists...
Here's to the miracle birth of the McCaughey septuplets in Iowa [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 1]! Everyone should have seven kids. Go for it! CHRISTEL VANE Hove, England...
...Jiang, 70, is better positioned than most people expected. The portly technocrat, a former mayor and party boss of Shanghai, has been a national figure only since 1989, and he is regularly dismissed as a lightweight and a weather vane who swings with the political winds. In fact he has shown a lot of political savvy since Deng called him to Beijing in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre. With Deng's help he took on all the posts that matter: President, General Secretary of the party, chairman of the Central Military Commission. But Jiang...