Word: acte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time of greater than normal dangers from alcohol consumption," said Harvey C. Dzodin, vice president for commercial standards at ABC, which is also airing shows with similar themes. "We're are supposed to act in the public interest, which...
...this is the type of council the student body wants, then the council's new leaders should understand this desire and act on it. However, everyone should understand that a council aimed solely at more input in College decisions will take many years and many council leaders...
...things wrong with the Gore campaign is that Gore chose to pay a feminist such as Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month so he can figure out how to act like a man [NATION, Nov. 8]. But the Vice President might really need to cultivate the women's vote, because at this rate he is surely going to lose the men's. GERALD PARTIDA Chino, Calif...
Tart-tongued South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, one of Domenici's predecessors as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, decried all talk of surpluses as "a circus act if I've ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year...
...outshines the altogether dismal film prequel offered in The Phantom Menace. Gamemakers are starting to pull in big names. James Earl Jones, for example, stars in Command & Conquer's latest outing, while David Bowie is the driving force behind the forthcoming Omikron. Indeed, game designers are starting to act like directors--guys like Sid Meier (Alpha Centauri) and Adrian Smith (Tomb Raider) who closet themselves in high-end studios for two years at a time, ceaselessly fine-tuning their grand vision, their masterwork...