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...negotiating fields of rough river stones, inconvenient boulders, dusty sand banks and pools of cold water. It's slow, slow going. On either side sheer mountains glare down like surly sentinels. Villages are few. At times we drove up from the river and across low folds of hills where endless gullies and draws make for good ambush. No wonder the Russians could never capture Baghran. A Soviet tank, ruptured by rockets, rusts at one turn; a scant reminder of a failed campaign...
...after years of threatened suits, failed congressional bills and endless negotiations, 46 states signed onto a national settlement with the big tobacco corporations worth $206 billion. The money would be paid out over several years to the states, which had been forced to bear much of the health care costs of treating addicted smokers. In return, the tobacco companies were freed from the threat of endless, potentially bankrupting lawsuits. The states had sold the idea to voters with the understanding that this money would be used to care for ill smokers and prevent more kids from getting hooked...
...intelligence; and Fry's self-important detective, cluelessly investigating the murder of their host (Gambon), is also funny. Altman wants us to sympathize with the servants, and it turns out that the crime is justified by a back story of Dickensian sentimentality, but tedium overwhelms caring well before this endless film finally concludes...
...were from the beginning a little too impressed. There were endless warnings that making war on a Muslim nation would succeed only in recruiting more enraged volunteers for bin Laden, with a flood of fierce mujahedin going to Afghanistan to confront the infidel. Western experts warned that the seething "Arab street" would rise up against...
...that he had asked himself whether his company is "building things in this world that are beyond the state of our management." Parsons has heard the complaints from his managers that they have too little time and freedom to grow their businesses because they're made to sit through endless meetings seeking to "coordinate" with half a dozen other divisions and achieve vague "synergies." Some of his colleagues believe Parsons will be more open to spinning off assets than was Levin...