AJR  Cliché Corner
From AJR,   October 1992

Cliché corner   

By Chip Rowe
Chip Rowe, a former AJR associate editor, is an editor at Playboy.     




Many governments want to lift the embargo..to level the playing field ... (National Public Radio)

The U.S. House approval yesterday of legislation to level the playing field in the computer reservation system... (Business Wire)

The media..feel guilty about [Gennifer Flowers] and they wanted to level the playing field. (Expert on "Nightline")

Felice Schwartz — prediction time. How long before we're all on a level playing field — women, minorities, everyone? ("Crier & Company," CNN)

If rumors about the president ever made it into the mainstream press, he would have to respond. Today, he did, so the playing field has been leveled . (Stone Phillips,
"Dateline NBC")

..a reciprocal trade agreement to create a level playing field , and I'm sure President Clinton will look at this agreement to see whether adequate action has been taken to level the playing field so it's a fair playing field . (Sen. Don Riegle, quoted by Reuters)

Bush promised he would try to level the playing field , but it may be too late... (USA Today)

From one week in August. Nearly a third of the 10,900 examples found in a database search had appeared in the previous year.





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