Word: woo
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...every word you say on this subject. You don't want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who says that "some upscale white suburban voters can easily be repulsed by the Helms approach...
Ivanov, deputy director of the Center on Asia and the Pacific at Moscow's Institute of World Economics and International Relations, said that "very important confidence-building measures between Moscow and Washington" led to last year's meeting between Gorbachev and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo in San Francisco...
Despite such reflexive gestures, however, and ritual references to "((South Korean President)) Roh Tae Woo and his cutthroats," Pyongyang takes pains to absolve its southern brothers of most blame. The history books allude only to the "war between America and North Korea," and the North Koreans constantly repeat that theirs is a "homogeneous nation," though nothing could be further from the raucous vivacity of Seoul than Pyongyang's unearthly quiet. Just three years ago, North Korean saboteurs bombed a Korean Air Lines plane in the hope of sabotaging the Seoul Olympics and killed 115 people; now, having seen unification come...
...strike at the third largest U.S. metropolitan daily quickly became a cause celebre. More than 10,000 municipal workers and other sympathizers joined strikers in a rally outside News headquarters. Inside, the strikebound paper's editors were frantically offering jobs to reporters at other publications and trying to woo back wavering staffers to help put out the News. "My boss was on the phone again this afternoon pleading with me to come back," said a striking reporter. "It was an incredibly hard sell. He said, 'You still have your job, but we can't promise that for tomorrow...
...within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow. "He will attract writers by the score." Will this hard-charging new chief ratchet up the best-seller wars another notch? It's a story line even...