Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insist the factory was a chemical weapons bazaar -- primed to produce VX for Baghdad as well as Bin Laden. Nonsense, say the Sudanese: Soil samples from outside the plant are no indication of what's going on within, and taking samples from inside the plant would require a power drill. Futhermore, Sudan alleges, their only Iraqi contract was for humanitarian deliveries of medicine...
...brilliant commentary on a certain kind of war movie--those depicting a small unit with a job to do. They form something like a tradition, one with roots snaking back to silent-picture days but flourishing with particular energy during and just after World War II. You know the drill: griping guys of disparate backgrounds do their duty--holding a vital position, taking a crucial hill--in the process bonding and absorbing acceptable losses...
...know the drill: uggy fauna must be confronted, nasty flora must be cut through. And then there's the not entirely plausible pirate attack to be beaten off. All this, naturally, provides the occasion first for bickering, then for dawning mutual respect, finally for bonding. All in all, one cannot say that originality is screenwriter Michael Browning's strong suit. You always feel that you're ahead of this movie's curve...
Across the globe, a Canadian oil company makes plans to drill on a South American Indian tribe's ancient burial ground, changing its plans only when thousands of U'wa Indians threaten to throw themselves off a cliff in a mass suicide...
...basic skills they need and our schools hate to teach. As a college teacher, I see the sorry outcome: students who can't write worth a damn, who lack basic math and language skills. Our schools are scared to tell students to sit down and shut up and learn; drill it, memorize it, because you must master it whether it's fun or not. Children pay the price for our educational cowardice...