Word: garrett
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...that progressive politics and music once resonated to the same social vibrations. That has never been a problem for Midnight Oil, the Australian outfit with a knack for turning its ideals into pop anthems for the common man. In the group's 1988 hit, Beds Are Burning, singer Peter Garrett warned: "The time has come/ To say fair's fair/ To pay the rent/ To pay our share...
Drums of Heaven describes a terminal wasteland where the "tears of the crocodile water the sun" and "kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust." Feeding Frenzy uses sepulchral organ chords and a throbbing bass line to drive home its point that civilization has bloodied its own waters; Garrett sings, "Computers and shovels, churches and brothels/ Mannequins and skeletons, cities and dust bowls/ Here we go again/ Hear the clamor of the feeding pen." Garrett, who ran unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate in 1984, sings like a man on a mission, his voice stoked with righteous indignation as he lashes...
...Defense, he's still at it, right to the end. Pentagon technology watchdogs were appalled to learn on the eve of Commerce Secretary Barbara / Franklin's trade trip to Beijing that her department had cleared the way for the Chinese military to buy 15 jet engines made by Garrett, a division of Allied-Signal. Not only would the sale enhance China's military capability, but it could further destabilize the Middle East by extending the range of Silkworm cruise missiles available to Chinese clients Iran and Iraq -- in certain cases to intercontinental distances, say the Pentagon critics. "Now we wonder...
...What you have done is thoroughly evil," pronounced U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown as he sentenced Arthur D. Seale to the maximum: 95 years in prison, without parole. Seale, 45, an ex-Exxon employee, kidnapped senior Exxon official Sidney Reso in his own driveway and stuffed him, bound and bleeding, into a storage locker while negotiating his ransom. The entombed Reso slowly died an agonizing death. Seale and his wife Irene were tracked down by investigators. It was she who divulged the damning details of the kidnapping, and is now in prison, soon to face her own sentencing...
Although the above facts suggest that the ordinance unfairly targets the Santeria religion, the city claims that the ordinance is a neutral governmental decision not formulated with religion in mind. Richard G. Garrett, the lawyer who will argue the city's case, protests rather disingenuously that both secular and religious animal sacrifices are outlawed by the ordinance...