Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Growers bet on a desert bean...
Irate New Yorkers are pushing past the token booths and ducking under the turnstiles. In Philadelphia, commuter trains are plastered with white cardboard notices announcing the end of service on Aug. 30. In Chicago, suburbanites are so infuriated by fare increases that they are threatening to desert their leafy outposts...
...most publicized plan for deploying the missiles is now nearly synonymous with MX itself and with the controversy surrounding it. Under this $40 billion scheme, the missiles would be wheeled around 200 high-security drag strips scattered over 10,000 miles in the desert wastes of the West. This brobdingnagian shell game is intended to foil any Soviet strike by baffling the enemy: unaware of each missile's actual location, the Soviets would be obliged to target all 4,600 MX shelters to guarantee success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan...
...second. As Tod and Copper learn more about themselves and each other while on the run, so the young Disney artists making their feature-film debut here realize the emotive and kinetic power of animation in the chase sequences. They are as finely shaped and paced as the desert drive in Raiders of the Lost Ark-and almost as violent. More important, they suggest a dimension of conflict within as well as between the antagonists. Will Tod escape not only the surly Chief but his old friend, now a deadly nemesis? Will Tod defend Slade, who has sworn to kill...
Unlike the desert-dwelling Saudis, the coastal Arabs of Kuwait have a lengthy tradition of commerce with other peoples. Less orthodox in their Islamic observance than the Saudis, the Kuwaitis also have a more relaxed and open attitude toward banking and finance. Sniffing out a deal is in their blood...