Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aliens from Bangladesh, the Philippines and other Asian nations who live in Japan. Under the measure, which contains no amnesty provision for illegal aliens who now hold jobs, firms caught hiring illegal foreign workers will be fined as much as $14,000. Employers who persist in the practice could face three years in prison...
...souped-up Chevy Lumina circles the track at North Carolina's Charlotte Motor Speedway. At the wheel is Tom Cruise, daredevil superstar. The hazel eyes that laser out of his handsome face focus on the thrill of speed and risk. Nor is this challenge confined to a roadway's hard curve; it applies as well to his career in the movies, even if it means taking dangerous curves toward roles that might confound his fans. This day, after a dozen laps, Cruise sees a dime, stops on it and emerges from the Lumina to say hello to a visitor...
Emigres said Bucharest radio warned citizens on Sunday to remain orderly or face serious consequences, which in Romania can include long jail sentences or forced labor...
...last of the millennium, so far out of favor (and economic viability) have historical epics of all kinds fallen. Maybe one's good response to Glory derives from the sheer novelty of the thing and from admiration for the producers' gumption in flinging it in the face of the movie audience's indifference to the pretelevised past...
...powerful need to assert their manhood through deadly exertion. Glory is at its best when it shows their proud embrace of 19th century warfare at its most brutal. Director Edward Zwick graphically demonstrates the absurdity of lines of soldiers slowly advancing across open ground, shoulder to shoulder, in the face of withering rifle volleys and horrendous cannonade. The fact that the 54th finally achieves respect (and opens the way for other black soldiers) only by losing half its number in a foredoomed assault on an impregnable fortress underscores this terrible and brutal irony...