Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SIMPSONS Audiences aren't exactly having a cow; the clan was an underachiever in ratings wrap...
What really caused surprise was the public's reaction to the biased reporting. "We focus-grouped the issue several times," says Shumate. The results were contained in a June 7 wrap-up memo on TV coverage. Only 28% of respondents said the media were very biased in Yeltsin's favor--a group that consisted mostly of Zyuganov's partisans. Twenty-nine percent said the media were "somewhat biased," but they broke in Yeltsin's favor. Amazingly, 27% said they thought the media were biased against Yeltsin...
Showtime in the Cu Chi tunnelplex was usually around 7 p.m. Thanh's projection crew would wrap up their daytime activities (foraging, digging, shooting at helicopters, etc.), descend underground and prepare for the evening's unspooling. Shortly thereafter, the audience, bubbling with anticipation, would arrive through the various connecting tunnels. On movie night, the entire population of a small hamlet would simply vanish underground. Up to 100 guerrillas and their families would cram into the dank screening chamber, taking pains not to sit on any poisonous vipers. (The moviegoers would try to ignore the rats, which were tolerated...
...human-rights organization run on a Third World budget. It was Kernaghan's testimony at an April 29 congressional hearing on labor abuses that put Gifford on the griddle. "The fact that major companies are going after these celebrities to be their point persons gives us someone we can wrap our arms around." In fact, that tactic worked so well that last week the lobby Made in the U.S.A. took advantage of the N.B.A. finals to remind consumers that Michael Jordan reportedly earns $20 million a year endorsing Nike sneakers, and to claim that this is more than the total...
...fight for survival, before he even went off to war. Cramer describes Russell as a town proud of the fact that everyone there had been broke at one time or another. When it stopped raining for a few years, the dust grew so thick they had to wrap babies in wet sheets to keep them from suffocating from the dirt. A farmer turned away by the local bank herded his cows into a corner, shot them one by one and them shot himself. Dole dug up dandelions for a nickel a bushel, delivered grocery handbills, worked in the drugstore...