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Financial pressures, the demand of ratings, the changing tastes of the American public all led to new decisions in newsrooms about what to cover and how.
Dan Abrams
Financial
Changing
Pressures
About
Ratings
Demand
New
How
Cover
Led
American
Tastes
Decisions
Public
American Public
'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.
Darryl Pinckney
Great
Man
Try
Ralph
Else
Honored
Pressures
Write
Writer
He
Remembered
Invisible
Great Thing
Dead
Another
Because
Go
Did
Intense
Done
African-American
Bread
Anything
Break
Anything Else
Holds
Literature
Place
Then
Thing
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
David Blunkett
Government
Reality
Harshness
Pressures
Days
Affected
Modern
Communications
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
David Halberstam
Today
Book
World
Marketing
Easier
Television
Pressures
Television Show
Memoir
Driving
Than
Author
Get
Much
Show
Novelist
Serious
I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.
David Keith
Love
Home
Me
Lying
Pressures
Just
Being
Games
Dad
Floor
Watching
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it's hard to take criticism and all the things like that.
David S. Goyer
Family
You
People
Criticism
Pressures
Torture
Take
Pros
Like
Know
Around
Understand
How
Material
Am
How Much
Friends
Artist
Being
Much
Your
Hard
Cons
Things
There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'
David Schwimmer
Life
You
Change
Sometimes
Degree
Think
Analysis
Benefit
Pressures
Constantly
Cost
Makes
Leave
Goes
Maybe
Just
Certain
Should
Your
Things
Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.
Deeyah Khan
Life
Family
Control
Community
Way
Pressures
Parental
Seems
Within
Provide
Expectations
Break
Scripted
Flee
Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to express their opinions and to move freely within their communities.
Deeyah Khan
Education
Family
Women
Pressures
Independent
Able
More
Freely
Within
Withstand
Opinions
Sources
Move
Patriarchal
Skills
Communities
Express
Income
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz
Needs
Drinking
Pressures
Your
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
Donald Rumsfeld
Work
Day
First
White
White House
Pressures
Trim
House
Continuously
Contrary
Staff
Your
Last
To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
Edgar Ramirez
Difficulties
Pressures
Only
Like
Sport
Roberto
Boxer
Understand
Itself
Duran
Portray
Needed
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Edmund White
Gay
Political
Community
Other
Pressures
Perhaps
Within
Subject
Fiction
Literature
Body
If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.
Edward Zwick
Time
You
Together
Communication
Try
Dinner
Research
Other
Channel
Spend
Once
Pressures
Find
About
Having
Open
Know
Talking
Doing
Shooting
Intense
Common
Want
Common Ground
Really
Your
Ground
Each
Lives
For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
Evan Osnos
Time
Age
Trials
Book
Parents
Ambition
Young
Other
Unlike
Spent
Those
Pressures
Faced
Documenting
Chinese
Who
Bombarded
Among
Things
Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Gail Collins
Work
Family
You
Women
World
Care
Will
Think
Pressures
East
Find
About
Answer
Issues
America
Africa
Middle
Middle East
Asia
Really
The pressures on younger players now are greater. You've just got to be on your toes all the time with social media and stuff. Now you just go to fill your car up, and there will be somebody wanting to film you trying to do something silly like that.
Gareth Barry
Time
You
Social Media
Car
Will
Somebody
Pressures
Silly
Something
Stuff
Like
Greater
Got
Go
Up
Trying
Just
Wanting
Social
Younger
Toes
Your
Fill
Media
Film
Now
Players
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Gavin Newsom
Business
Building
Meeting
Books
Pressures
Small
Small Business
Developing
Like
Balancing
Up
Owner
Any
Experienced
Customer
Plan
Business Owner
Ground
Payroll
Company
Base
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
Hideki Tojo
Success
Time
Military
Vain
Consider
Virtually
Further
Negotiations
Crisis
Pressures
Possibility
Would
Only
Economic
Through
Allowed
Force
Pass
Were
Japan
Therefore
The pressures of playing in the World Cup are different, but it was because we coped with them in 1992 under Imran Khan's guidance and influence that we won the Cup.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Guidance
World
Khan
Pressures
Because
Cup
Won
Influence
Different
Them
World Cup
Playing
I'm ready to accept the pressures of captaincy.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Pressures
Accept
Ready
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
Business
Financial
Fears
Long
Pour
Building
Earnings
Markets
Financial Markets
Pressures
Out
Long-Term
Term
Executive
Chief
Chief Executive
Officers
Expense
Energies
Boards
Produce
Succumb
Companies
I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
James A. Michener
Me
Face
Situation
Immediate
Pressures
Outside
Developed
Attended
Along
Attitudes
Real
Permitted
Came
Issues
Were
Discussed
Seminars
Real Thing
Where
Which
Social
Certain
Social Issues
Many
Thing
I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer prices, and other indicators of underlying inflation pressures were to weaken, if market-based measures of inflation compensation were to fall appreciably further, or if survey-based measures were to begin to decline noticeably.
Janet Yellen
Inflation
Fall
Other
Further
Pressures
Weaken
Would
Would-Be
Rate
Uncomfortable
Federal
Prices
Consumer
Underlying
Readings
Wage
Were
Begin
Decline
Measures
Growth
Compensation
Funds
Raising
Core
I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.
Jeanne Moreau
Life
Work
Time
Family
My Life
Aim
Relationships
Those
Pressures
Complications
Disturbed
More
Outside
Self
Because
Dealing
Am
Passionate
Who
Who Am I
Searching
Now
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.
Joanna Scott
Marketplace
Complex
Pressures
Given
Demand
Global
Make
Reader
Becoming
Effort
Literary
Justify
Products
Works
Harder
Profitable
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