Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is O.K. for a while. Director Edward Zwick has a deft way with combat scenes, and nobody is better than Washington at conveying tormented dutifulness. What's not so O.K. is Courage Under Fire's pretensions to moral seriousness. It would like to be a thoughtful meditation on bravery, honor, truth--the big topics. But it's really just a crudely manipulated mystery story, building suspense by arbitrarily withholding pertinent information. It's hard to take its thoughts on integrity seriously when it exhibits so little of that quality in its own storytelling...
...addition, Bainbridge was instrumental in convincing the Navy to utilize radar on its ships to combat German submarines, recalls Edward M. Purcell, a retired professor of physics from Harvard...
...jour: free cell phones for neighborhood crime watch groups. The White House has announced that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will contribute 50,000 cell phones pre-programmed to dial 911, along with free cellular air time, to the nation's 20,000 community policing programs to help them combat crime. TIME Washington correspondent J.F.O McAllister that Americans can expect to see Clinton expanding his new tack of governing-by-fiat, since it casts him as the activist President working hard for middle-class folks. Take the speech last month when he asked television networks for three hours of educational...
...English, for the world market. In 1989, after a clever Spielberg-rip-off kids' fantasy (Making Contact) and a comedy about moviemaking (Ghost Chase), he directed Moon 44, an outer-space Dirty Dozen with a story line that would recur in ID4: for a desperate space battle, a former combat pilot must assemble a ragtag band of flyers, including a loser with heroically suicidal tendencies. Devlin played the computer-nerdy male ingenue; after Moon 44, he and the director became filmmaking partners...
...around the world. However, the assertion by Labor Secretary Robert Reich that half of the 22,000 U.S. garment contractors are sweatshops paying less than the minimum wage is absolutely wrong. We are astounded by this irresponsible denunciation of our industry after the efforts we have made to combat sleazy practices. For a U.S. government official to stigmatize an industry that manufactures $50 billion worth of consumer products every year and contributes to the economic success of this country is astonishing. LARRY K. MARTIN, President American Apparel Manufacturers Association Arlington, Virginia...