Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is, well, dumb. Landis made a werewolf movie that is nothing more than a werewolf movie; a pity, because it could have conveyed more profound sentiments than "Yikes!" Landis said he got the idea in 1969, when while traveling through Yugoslavia, he saw a ritual peasant burial to guard against corpses rising from the grave. "What would happen if that body got up?" he recalled asking himself. "I'm totally unequipped to deal with the living dead...
...implemented, Mendelsohn's suggestions would undoubtedly lead to a judicially prescribed religious orthodoxy, with the potential for discrimination against believers of any persuasion. To guard against just this eventuality, the Supreme Court has declared that "no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in matters of politics, nationalism, religion, or other matter of opinion." Alan D. Viard, GSAS Bill O'Keefe, Kennedy School Stephen Sally, GSAS
...There is still plenty of human hubbub on the trading floor, but less than there used to be in the pre- electronic '60s. Glowing cathode-ray screens now festoon the marble columns of the venerable hall. Overhead, gold-painted tubes conceal telephone and computer cables. Some 450 specialists stand guard at 14 trading posts, a few more than in older days, matching buy and sell orders from stockbrokers...
Colleagues praise Stringer as a talented producer and a bright, engaging man. He seems to have bridged the gap between CBS's Old Guard and younger staffers more eager for change. "Howard was the first choice of almost everyone I know," says Andrew Lack, executive producer of West 57th. "He will be good for morale." Says Washington Correspondent Phil Jones: "Stringer's a real newsman. We're all feeling good because we're convinced we're heading back to the CBS News of old." Accustomed to twelve-hour workdays, Stringer lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village with his wife...
Waite is also trusted by all sides to remain impartial and apolitical. "He has no political point of view whatsoever," says a British diplomat. "He carries out his missions from a strictly humanitarian point of view." Perhaps most important, Waite is a man known to guard confidences jealously. That trait has earned him the trust of not only Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Runcie but Gaddafi and Shi'ite kidnapers...