Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denies that he led a campaign to suppress it. "This movie will rise or fall on its own merits," he says. "There is nothing anyone can do to stop it." Bolstering his argument is the fact that the film, for all its troubles, has found a distributor: Atlantic Entertainment Group, an independent company that has handled such films as Teen Wolf and Wish You Were Here. Some contend that Wired's producers are simply trying to generate controversy over a bad film with poor box-office prospects. "The only thing that the producers have to hang...
Wary eyes have been watching cars below wind up the dirt road and turn off to a ramshackle pig farm in the next ravine. Finally a Cadillac with four men inside bumps along the track. The presence of guards at a pig farm, waving visitors through, confirms the group's suspicion that a batch was brewing, its odor lost in the waft from the barns. "Don't ask me; it's not mine," Big John says. "That's a bunch of Mexican nationals down there, and I'm not of a mind to visit...
...from the truth: the thorny problem of nationalism had erupted in violence yet again in one of Mikhail Gorbachev's non-Russian republics. From the Baltic republics to earthquake-devastated Armenia, greater independence from Moscow has become a rallying cry. The latest troubles began last month, when a minority group known as the Abkhazians, who live in an autonomous enclave in the western part of Georgia, demanded full independence. Georgians, who account for 48% of the population in Abkhazia where Abkhazians are a mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which quickly spread to Tbilisi and mushroomed into calls for more autonomy from...
...mere idea that the Navy is drafting marine mammals has created a furor. A group of 15 organizations concerned with animal welfare has filed a lawsuit against the Government, charging that moving the dolphins from their homes in warm southern waters to the chilly Puget Sound will endanger the animals. Moreover, one of their former trainers asserts that the Navy has abused the dolphins. Still other critics question the wisdom of entrusting the security of the nation's underwater nuclear arsenal to animals, however clever...
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the investment firm that bought RJR Nabisco for $25 billion. In his own small way, Patrick Reynolds has remained an annoyance to relatives and cigarette makers alike. If his book is successful, he says, he will donate a substantial portion of the profits to a lobbying group he is forming, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free America...