Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newt Gingrich, the House Republican whip, is the street-fighting man of politics. Usually he skewers Democrats, but even the bipartisan budget deal fell victim to his verbal darts. Wowed by his technique, many ambitious young Republicans are musing, "I wish I could speak like Newt." To help them, a GOP committee called gopac has distributed a brochure filled with choice Gingrich buzz words for describing one's own campaign and the opponent...
...first Western scholars fluent in Japanese, Reischauer predicted the country's potential for industrialization. His understanding of Japanese society went far beyond the verbal level, said Schwartz, formerly Reischauer's student...
...common mistake to assume that all abuse is physical. The scars of other forms of abuse -- like unrelenting verbal cruelty -- can be just as apparent when children grow older, unloved and self-hating. "You can tell kids you love 'em," says April, a runaway in Hollywood. "But that's not the same as showing them. Broken promises is really what tears your heart apart." For April there is not much difference between insult and injury. "Beating kids will hurt kids. Sexual abuse will hurt a kid. But verbal abuse is the worst. I've had all three...
...Instead of quotas they'll use other methods ofdiscrimination like emphasizing verbal over mathscores," Igasaki said, noting that Asian Americanstend to score higher on the latter. This sort ofdiscrimination could never be discerned by areview, he said...
This minimalist approach succeeded last year in Hill's bleak staging of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, because it reflected the barrenness of Beckett's verbal landscape. But in a show about the foibles of human emotion and the intricacies of deception, more natural and sympathetic direction is required. The audience may laugh at the characters in Betrayal, but Hill ensures that we will never empathize...