Word: dicey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are so many details and even general principles to be agreed on," Peretz said. "It's really quite dicey still...
...much again from theaters overseas, and a similar amount from video around the world -- and from all of that around $100 million flowed back to the studio, a sum that might just cover Columbia's costs on Last Action Hero. Unfortunately for Columbia, reaching even that minimum threshold looks dicey...
...before the screen test, NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, groping for an alternative to Late Night with Conan O'Brien, had called comedian Garry Shandling's manager (who also represents Miller, Carvey and -- this is the dicey, potential-conflict-of- interest part -- Michaels) to broach the Late Night job. According to Shandling's people, NBC was willing to pay him $5 million a year. Last Monday morning, however, Shandling, having dithered for two weeks, turned down the job, and before lunch O'Brien's agent got NBC's phone call: $1 million plus, a one-year contract, take...
...Neill and Laura Dern, are essentially theme-park rides -- say, EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy, the one with the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs -- which Crichton has given a cunning tweak. The novel is also a dark musing on the hubris that can infect science and capitalism in the heady, dicey enterprise of cloning DNA. The biotechnologist thinks he is God; the businessman dreams he is Croesus...
...Army says the need for such a system was brought home by the gulf war, which presented a number of dicey identification problems. In one case, a pound of tissue turned over by the Iraqis had to be matched against beard shavings taken from a missing soldier's electric razor. But civil libertarians fear that this might be the precursor to a national DNA screening program. The Army insists that the samples will not be tested for AIDS, drug use or anything else. In the event of a subpoena issued as part of a criminal investigation, however, the Army would...