Word: chases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SMALL MINDS THINK ALIKE. It's as if Hollywood had just one huge brainstorming session for all its summer movies. Someone says, "I took a boat ride last week. Let's have a climactic boat chase." Speed 2 ends with one, and so, for no maritime reason, does Face/Off...
...compared with any other human endeavor. Civilians must accept the idea that those in command must be held to a high and strict standard. Since an officer's word must go unquestioned, lying under oath, as Flinn did, is a most grievous violation of trust. JOHN V. KAVANAGH Chevy Chase...
KINSHASA: Moving quickly to consolidate power, self- proclaimed President Laurent Kabila eliminated the post of prime minister and sparked a vociferous demonstration by oppostion protestors who denouced the rebel leader as a dictator in the making. "Etienne, Etienne, it's your name that chased out Mobutu, it also will chase out Kabila," chanted supporters of longtime democratic opposition leader Etienne Tsisekedi, who, twice ousted as prime minister under Mobutu, had hoped to be named to the post again under Kabila. Fat chance. A partial list of 13 Cabinet appointments unveiled Friday reads like a Who's Who of Kabila...
...President's approval rating jumped to 67% in one poll last week, up from 38% during the hostage crisis. But if Fujimori is to stay there and run again successfully in the election three years from now, he will have to do more than chase guerrillas. He rules with a quiet, icy authoritarianism that will have to soften if it is to make room for the social reforms and additional democracy he has promised. But last week his old-fashioned hardness, the stony style he displayed when he glared down at Cerpa's body on the staircase, unquestionably...
...Method or through the panel system. Under the Socratic Method, a professor calls on a student to state the background facts of the dispute and expound upon the legal reasoning and significance of the case. (Professors can be harsh and unyielding when utilizing the Socratic Method--see The Paper Chase--but most current Harvard Law professors are more easy-going and sympathetic...