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...served seven years as Vice Premier, earned his credentials as a hero of socialist capitalism beginning in 1993. Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping's invocation for the Chinese to get rich quick had touched off a frenzy of entrepreneurialism that threatened to engulf the country in inflation and debt. Zhu was given the job of cooling down the economy without dampening the double-digit growth in GNP. He did so by making himself head of the central bank and sharply curbing various abuses, including out-of-control bank lending to local enterprises. Inflation has since declined, from...
...City's credit, it contains some truly breathtaking moments. While the soundtrack itself leaves something to be desired, the sound is fantastic, especially the deafening roar that occur; when a stampede of reporters rushes to engulf the children Baily releases from the museum (the poor kids are far more terrified of the media than they were of Baily). The film also makes good use of its claustrophobic setting--the interior of a stuffy old natural history museum. A dinosaur skeleton occupies a central position throughout the movie, lending an eerie atmosphere of impending doom to the events Gavras films through...
...family trapped in the house while the storm rages outside, the tensions and emotions reach a dangerous level. When the lights go out (of course), conversation soon leads to unnecessary discoveries on everyone's part, and Marty and Lesly struggle to remain controlled despite the insanity that threatens to engulf them...
...Place it at the center of our solar system, and its girth ? sporting a radius somewhere between 93 and 139.5 million miles ? would engulf not only the Earth's orbit but probably Mars as well. Bye bye Pathfinder...
Large fish, it turns out, are among the most critical of all reef inhabitants, especially herbivores like parrotfish that eat seaweed. Fast-growing seaweed is always threatening to engulf the reefs, but it is usually kept in check by grazing fish. About a decade ago, a team of marine scientists conducted an experiment off the coast of Belize that proves this point. To keep fish out, the researchers surrounded a section of coral the size of a small pasture with a chicken-wire fence. Within 10 weeks, they found, the area inside the fence had been completely overgrown by seaweed...