Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe in promoting consciousness among women of their right to exercise control over their bodies," said Cohen...
...premise of Meet Joe Black, however, is fascinating and wonderfully profound. Pitt first appears as an agreeable, ill-fated newcomer to New York City who hits on medical resident Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani) in a coffee shop. Soon after leaving the shop, he is killed by an out-of-control car (the death is so overwhelmingly violent that you have to laugh). It turns out that Death himself has orchestrated Mr. Pitt's death so he can inhabit the young man's body. He next approaches communications tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), Susan's father, and convinces...
...need to have a big game from Crystal Springer and then we need to work our way up from there," Stone said. "We need to make sure we control our own end first and then dominate in the neutral zone because the offense will take care of itself...
...from Sherman McCoy is his realization, on some level, of just how foolish his egotism and macho stunts are. Despite this self-knowledge, Charlie simply cannot resist defending his alpha male status in any situation. For example, having just been humiliated by his creditors, Croker decides to reassert his control by capturing a rattlesnake barehanded: "He knew that what he was about to do was foolhardy--and he knew he would do it anyway...there was no other choice but the foolhardiest possible...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and its dean, Jeremy R. Knowles, stand to gain the most from the payout increase by virtue of FAS's control over 40 percent of the total endowment...