Word: dose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that our policies are basically soundand work well," he says. "Still, they would workeven better if we all had a healthy dose of mutualrespect and common sense...
...House of the Spirits" as a film simply dose not work., Conjectures as to why this is so range from the competing personalities of a international all-star cast (Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Vanessa Redgrave, Antonio Banderas, and the list goes on), to the diverging interests and interpretations of a Danish director (Bille August), a German producer (Bernd Eichinger) and a Chilean novelist...
...film's plots (including "Je m'appelle Victor," which stars the infamously outlandish Jeanne Moreau). And with the screening of Robert Altman's 1992 wry look at Hollywood, "The Player," and the panel discussion on April 9, "To Hell with Hollywood," workshop participants should get a healthy dose of what its really like to be on the edge in film making these days. In addition, the 2nd annual Tournage Awards will be awarded to two directors who are "confronting the difficulties of producing original, independent--minded projects." This year's winners will be Filip Forgeau and Maryel Ferraud who directed...
...beautiful tiger skin may bring its seller as much as $15,000, but the bones and other body parts generate even more money, and they are much easier to smuggle and peddle. As incomes rise in Asia, people can afford to pay tens or hundreds of dollars for a dose of tiger-based medicine. And as the destruction of tigers decreases supply, the price of their parts rises further, creating ever greater incentives for poachers to kill the remaining animals...
...levels to keep their customers hooked. For example, the report cited a 1972 internal memo by a Philip Morris scientist noting that "no one has ever become a cigarette smoker by smoking cigarettes without nicotine" and advising the company to "think of the cigarette as a dispenser for a dose unit of nicotine." In their defense, cigarette makers say it is no secret that they control the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. "How do you think in the past 20 years tobacco companies have produced low-nicotine cigarettes?" asks Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute. He insists that cigarettes never...