Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dream town of the 1990s doesn't need Walt's domes, skyscrapers or monorails. By offering good schools, clean streets and grass around the edges, Disney is creating a fantasy world so far removed from common experience that people are amazed at the prospect...
Wild Bill, which is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made--a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert--takes the celebrity metaphor into new realms of darkness and hysteria. Written and directed by Walter Hill (48 HRS.), it presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: if anyone touches his hat, he will shoot him. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing...
...what the Justice Department said was the first-ever court-ordered automobile recall. At issue: a computer chip, installed in 1991, that fixed a stalling problem by enriching the fuel when the heater or air conditioner was on. The resulting emissions were three times greater than allowed under the Clean Air Act. In announcing the recalls, Attorney General Janet Reno told a news conference, "It is simply not fair to burden people's health to improve the sales of automobiles." But Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter says that the fine, the second-largest levied on a manufacturer under the Clean...
...others are not breaking down as hoped. The investigators have long experience successfully grilling Palestinians, but they cannot apply the same harsh psychological and physical methods to Israelis: the law forbids many such techniques except to prevent an imminent act of terror. Meanwhile, the milder pressures--sleep deprivation, no clean clothes, no visits with attorneys--have failed to elicit all the information police are seeking. Investigators, "are still in considerable darkness," says an intelliegence source...
Silverman, a West Point--trained engineer, had no question about how to proceed at Rocky Flats. As soon as he took over two years ago, he plunged into a vigorous effort to clean the place up. There was, he learned, just one problem: most of what he wanted to do was against regulations...