Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade battles between Japan and the U.S., few have provoked more friction than the fight over the semiconductor industry. Ten years ago, U.S. companies manufactured 80% of the world's computer microchips, but since then the Japanese have taken over roughly that share. Last week a group of seven American computer companies, including archrivals IBM and Digital Equipment, announced a move that might help the U.S. recoup some of its lost ground. The companies will create a joint venture that will manufacture and sell dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips using IBM technology...
...Danny Aiello), the Italian American who runs the corner pizzeria, brags that the locals "grew up on my food." His delivery boy, Mookie (Lee), doles out advice while dodging duties to his girlfriend and their child. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) keeps the block pulsing to the rap song, Fight the Power, that bleats from his boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem start fighting about the loud music; the cops arrive and, in the struggle, kill Raheem; Mookie throws a trash can through his employer's window; the place goes...
...according to Gordon Davidson, head of the Social Investment Forum in Boston. Much of this nest egg belongs to pension funds like the $53 billion California Public Employees Retirement System. Their increasingly activist stance has strengthened the hand of the many religious groups that have waged an 18-year fight with corporations, seeking to influence policy through proxy battles at shareholders' meetings. Harrison Goldin, the comptroller of New York City and trustee of $30 billion in pension funds, led a campaign last spring to force Exxon's management to place an environmentalist on its board of directors...
This is comic-book psychology in its highest form, and it seems pretty silly in a two-hour-plus movie. The idea of a twisted, tortured superhero who feels driven by his own past to fight crime is perfectly fine. And the idea of a deranged psychotic trickster who mirrors the the hero's split personality is equally intriguing...
...jock wrote stories -- he tried to compile a book based on letters and tapes Dan sent back from Viet Nam -- and went to the movies. "Great heroism, great love stories sent chills down my spine," he recalls. "I was particularly intrigued by 'dilemmas.' To me, drama is dilemma -- the fight not to do something. A dilemma is wanting to kiss a woman and not doing it. Once you do it, it's 'action.' Action is fine. I understand what it's about. But you have to understand where it comes from." And you can guess where the kissing dilemma came...