Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Backup center Bill Ewing has shown flashes of potential in the post all season, and that pattern continued against St. Joseph's. He scored seven points in the first half, including a two-handed dunk, and recorded one of his trademark elections, but only saw six minutes of action in the second half and did not score after halftime...
Still, no one expected the stunning blow that came in the statement by Senate majority leader Trent Lott not long before the first airbursts were seen over Baghdad: "I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time. Both the timing and the policy are subject to question." This was a break with tradition. Even when Ronald Reagan's 1983 invasion of Grenada just two days after the terrorist bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut led to more attacks at home on U.S. policy in Lebanon, a skeptical Democratic leadership refrained from attacking the President's motives...
...CIVIL ACTION...
...always nice, at the holiday season, to see a man get religion. It's especially rewarding to see him do so in a smart, tough, yet curiously moving film like A Civil Action, which is based on Jonathan Harr's true, best-selling account of how an insanely complicated Massachusetts case involving deadly environmental pollution was endlessly litigated...
...gossiped that major studios shied away from the project because of the connection to Hubbard, but Krane insists the production is completely unrelated to the group. "I've never even dealt with or talked to the church on this," says Krane, who is not a member. "This is an action-adventure, science-fiction story. Period. The movie has nothing to do with Scientology...