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Congress, of course, realizes that the public is enraged that the likes of the American Widget Association has a lot better chance of getting heard than the unorganized masses who buy widgets but are unable to produce a pair of Super Bowl tickets. And so last week the Senate voted 95-4 for tough gift restrictions -- no more trips to luxury resorts, no more gifts worth more than $20. During the debate, members couched their feelings about the pending deprivation in high-minded terms. However, Bennett Johnston of Louisiana couldn't help whining that he wouldn't even be able...
...shrinking badly, and it requires a delicate balance with Government funding to work well. Corporations' underwriting money comes out of their promotion budgets and -- not unreasonably, since their goal is to make money -- they want to be associated with popular, prestigious events. It's no trick to get Universal Widget to underwrite a Renoir show, or one of those PBS nature series (six hours of granola TV, with bugs copulating to Mozart). But try them with newer, more controversial, or more demanding work and watch the faces in the boardroom drop. Corporate is nervous money; it needs...
...skills, and turned into a showcase for their uninhibited style of royal excursion. With her nimble spontaneity, Diana is invigorating the staid ritual of the walkabout, the traditional version of which presents a gloved and hatted royal frowning to show interest as a dusty foreman laboriously explains how a widget is manufactured. Touring an aluminum smelter in the city of Portland, Diana could not stop giggling at the sight of Charles wearing a too small hard hat and protective goggles; with his Clark Gable ears, he looked rather like a Volkswagen with both doors wide open. A sheepish Charles turned...
...teach such subjects as anatomy and aviation. The method has proved particularly successful in the world of high finance. In Scarborough's Run for the Money ($80), PC users learn about business by competing in the market for synthetic bananas. In Harvard Associates' MacManager ($50), players run their own widget making companies. In Scarborough's Make Millions ($50), the simulation includes an office with all the trappings of a corporate desktop, down to a working computer, a telephone that never stops ringing, a plant that needs watering and an unending flow of memos...
Frobnitz (plural: frobnitzem): an unspecified physical object, a widget...