Word: courters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he comes out of hiding, he really comes out. Salman Rushdie is writing a feature-film screenplay based on a short story he wrote about an immigrant boy growing up in London in the '60s. (Gee, Sal, how'd you come up with that one?) The Courter will be produced by British film company Warner Sisters (yes, Sisters). So far, it hasn't offended anyone...
Washington -- Jim Courter, chairman of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, left out one conclusion when he submitted his panel's report to the President last week. While taking testimony on redundant military bases, Courter found out that there was even more post-cold war waste at Department of Energy facilities. The budgets for Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are each over $1 billion, and DOE insiders concede that both could be closed and their tasks taken over by another facility. Courter says another commission is needed to sort out the glut, which could mean...
...wring the politics out of the process as much as possible, last January President Clinton named a nonpartisan outside panel, officially called the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Former Republican Congressman Jim Courter of New Jersey is the chairman; its other members, four men and two women, are former government officials, retired military officers and business executives. In March they received the Pentagon's recommendation to close 31 major installations around the U.S. Since then they have added 47 others for "consideration." They plan to announce their decisions this week and pass their list to Clinton, who is allowed...
...only naval shipyard in a region that is the home port to 149 Navy ships, including five aircraft carriers?" In spite of the force of the argument, one member of the presidential commission said later, "If Norfolk or Portsmouth thinks we're not serious, they are kidding themselves." Courter, the commission chairman, told a press conference in Norfolk, "We're not here to terrorize the communities," but he added, "This is a very serious exercise...
...supporting roles, Winsome Brown as the decrepit Madame de Rosemonde is amusing and well-cast. Ian Lithgow as Cecile Volanges' courter provides some comic relief...