Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States. It's hard to find any money to put away for college, so Dole offers a deduction for student loans and a $500 tax credit per child. Mom can't be there screening what the kids watch on TV every minute, so here's a V chip. It is not the craft of politics, it's the art of coping...
Fidelity was trying to balance performance and predictability when it shifted the fund managers last March. Some of the funds were not doing as well as they ought to have been, and many were wandering far from their ostensible mandates. The Blue Chip Growth Fund, for example, was heavily invested in small and midsize companies. (Its manager, Michael Gordon, left Fidelity to work with Vinik.) Asset Manager, which was supposed to be a low-risk diversified fund, had 18% of its holdings in Mexican debt...
...easy to woo," laments a studio chairman. "He's not easy to get to." Handicappers say Lucas talks first to Fox, which has shown its good faith by lavishing millions on the video boxed set and on redoing the original trilogy for theaters. Fox also has a big bargaining chip: Lucas owns the copyrights to the Empire and Jedi installments, but Star Wars belongs to Fox. A friend says Lucas wants to complete his collection; Fox might be willing to trade its copyright for an international film- and television-distribution deal. But Disney also has something to barter: Lucas...
...this, the dawn of the v-chip age, it is hard to understand how John Woo has found a place on prime-time network television. As you may already know if you are on the cutting edge of moviegoing, Woo is one of the pre-eminent auteurs of Hong Kong filmmaking, a master of somber, lyrical and unrelentingly bloody action films. He had his first U.S. hit earlier this year with Broken Arrow, and breaks new American ground this month with his first-ever made-for-TV movie, John Woo's Once a Thief (Fox, Sept...
With less than two minutes remaining in the game, the Harvard offense had a third-and-goal situation from the Columbia one yard line, but a delay of game penalty and an incomplete pass forced the Crimson to settle for a chip-shot field goal attempt...