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...Sometimes we'll talk about what to play beforehand, but when we get on stage, if it doesn't feel right, we just throw it out and do something else," he says...
...various branches of military intelligence. Some blame that rivalry for the fact that during the 1989 invasion of Panama, American troops spent four days locating General Manuel Noriega. CIA defenders contend that the agency was kept in the dark about the invasion until a few hours beforehand, thus limiting what it could do. "There is too much cowboyism going on, too much effort by agencies to duplicate the work," says New Mexico Representative Bill Richardson, a member of the House intelligence committee. "They don't share information...
...greatest threats to human lives may come from overlooked, long dormant volcanoes. To monitor a volcano requires identifying it beforehand; as recently as 1981, Pinatubo was not even included in the worldwide registry of volcanoes maintained by the Smithsonian Institution. "When a nice little hill covered with lush vegetation finally wakes up," observes Smithsonian volcanologist Tom Simkin, "it's going to cause a lot of damage." Fortunately, scientists were able to see that some nice little hills in the Philippines and Japan were turning nasty while people still had time to get away...
...chances of a spring concert are looking slim to none," said vice-chair David A. Aronberg '93. "We were kind of upset because they told us nothing beforehand. All of a sudden, they said, 'Well, sorry...
...that happen. Predator opened at $12 million, and Barry Diller ((who runs 20th Century Fox)) said, 'We don't want to support the second week of the movie. It can go by itself now.' That was a major, major, major mistake. Now I know that is something to discuss beforehand...