Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From between the heavy draperies of House majority whip Tom DeLay's first-floor Capitol office, a bizarre scene could be glimpsed outside. In the normally quiet, heavily guarded parking lot, 13 elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were parading trunk-in-tail across the East Plaza, leading an entourage of dancing dogs and clowns on stilts. At the center of the mini-circus, a beaming Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a ring with a 14,762-lb. elephant named King Tusk. Touching off what would become a daylong stampede of inevitable jokes, the Speaker announced that...
...defeated balanced budget amendment. It was good news to Republicans, for a change, the day after their amendment was defeated in a close vote. They used the announcement by Campbell -- a 61-year-old who sports a ponytail and rides a motorcycle -- to celebrate GOP diversity. Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) pointed out that his great-grandmother was a Chickasaw Indian. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wore a beaded Navajo tie. Democrats suggested Campbell should quit the Senate and submit himself to a special election to find out how voters feel about his switch. TIME congressional correspondent Karen...
...that the big agencies had better get serious about interactive advertising, or someone else will get the work. ``You can jump in early and help create this exciting new medium,'' he said, ``or you can let the world pass you by, and find yourself operating the best darned buggy-whip business on Madison Avenue.'' Smith's warning followed a rocket from Edwin Artzt, chairman of Procter & Gamble, the largest U.S. advertiser. Last year Artzt told agencies that unless Madison Avenue gets its interactive act together, companies like his will find other ways to tell consumers about their PRODUCTS. Manufacturers...
...other hand, went into the ad game. When the Internet and optical fiber and HDTV and digital cash all came together and turned into what we now call the Metaverse, most of the big ad agencies got hammered -- because in the Metaverse, you can actually whip out a gun and blow the Energizer Bunny's head off, and a lot of people did. Joe borrowed 10,000 bucks from Mom and Dad and started this clever young ad agency. If you've spent any time crawling the Metaverse, you've seen his work -- and it's seen you, and talked...
This really ticks off some people. Since the Ivy League is supposed to stand for excellence, they reason, why can't Harvard whip Oklahoma's butt in U.S. News & World Report and on the gridiron...