Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush's words did not calm the jitters most Americans have had since Quayle, looking like a groupie greeting a rock idol, manically accepted Bush's invitation to become his running mate in a bizarre riverside ceremony in New Orleans. The string of verbal gaffes that followed only deepened the impression that Quayle will never be ready for the presidency...
...Sacramento to Washington. So why haven't you heard more about it? That's simple: the book was released barely a week before Kitty Kelley's hit-and-run job on Nancy Reagan. Cannon is upset that Simon & Schuster, publisher of both biographies, didn't live up to a verbal agreement to keep the release of the Kelley book separate from his own tome. After numerous leaks about the Kelley book's contents, the company moved up its publication date from May to early April without informing Cannon, he claims. Although President Reagan has landed on some best-seller lists...
Perhaps, in other words, I should have been searching for that perfect non-verbal signal. Maybe a hearty handshake. Or a warm hug and a sigh. An interpretive dance...
...authors acknowledge that rape is difficult to define. Each respondent was asked whether they defined various activities, ranging from forced sexual intercourse to verbal harassment, as rape. Gordon and Riger keep these broad definitions throughout the book and are careful not to generalize...
...silly to mistake verbal purification for genuine social reform. Even after all women are "Ms." and all people are "he or she," women will still earn only 65 cents for every dollar earned by men. Minorities by any other name, such as "people of color," will still bear a hugely disproportionate burden of poverty and discrimination. Disabilities are not just "different abilities" when there are not enough ramps for wheelchairs, signers for the deaf or special classes for the "specially" endowed. With all due respect for the new politesse, actions still speak louder than fashionable phrases...