Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schwartzstein: Bear in mind, sometimes a year has passed between the time that something that has been gathered as a sample is in a laboratory, in analysis. Also the individuals who are gathering samples are not scientists...
Taylor gets help from a cast of unusual depth, in which the military hero (Michael Rapposelli), the middle-aged couple (Bill Tomic and Sue Bear) and the three "proteans" (Henry Biggs, Suzanne Tanner, and Tracey Trench) especially stand out. The latter set of characters show great comic versatility in moving among several jester-type roles: they are, in order, clowns, slaves, travelers, and foot soldiers, playing buffoons with enough restraint to keep from becoming annoying...
...honor these pledges and missions, the U.S. maintains enormous forces round the world. But bringing them to bear in trouble spots involves severe difficulties. The worst is a shortage of sealift and airlift capacity, brought on because the Navy and Air Force for decades have preferred to spend their money on combat hardware rather than on cargo ships and planes. Since 1981, the number of U.S. "mobile logistics ships" (vessels that carry petroleum, ammunition and other cargo to resupply battle fleets at sea) has increased by exactly one, from 72 to 73. Some 50 new transport planes are on order...
There is, nonetheless, a growing desire within the Administration to allow the Marines to take a more aggressive role against Syria. The radical Iranian groups thought most likely to be responsible for the attack operate from behind Syrian lines. Said Shultz: "Syria must bear a share of the responsibility for any Iranian actions in Lebanon whether or not it knew of any specific terrorist plans." His tough talk may have been laying the groundwork for a retaliatory assault. This could come through an attack on the Syrian artillery positions far up in the mountains, or on their weapons dumps...
...cool. Not that nature movies generally are, but most viewers will without a doubt recall with a wince those semi-documentaries which manage to cram the grand expanses of nature into the vacuum tube confines of the American psyche with a liberal lubricaiton of cuteness. You know, the bear cubs clumsily gamboling about, choreographed to silly bassoon music and chortling narration ("Well, I guess our little friends got more than they bargained for when they tried to get into that beehive...