Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess if I were forced to describe the movie in one word, I'd have to use cheap. The plot can be summarized in one sentence. The action is forgettable. In order to make this empty package appealing to the film consumer, Delta Force tries to play upon the basest of human emotions: revenge. Tired of being kicked around by nasty terrorists, Americans can finally see their boys fight back. As such, the film is nothing but an inferior version of Rambo II, in which our frustration about the Vietnam War was used and abused. But even Sylvester Stallone...
...been lucky. Every time I've been on the point of being fed up with what I was doing, something else came along," he says. "There came a time when I thought `Well, I guess this is my life,'" he says. "I've never regretted...
When the debate over whether to build a manned space station came to the Cabinet Room in late 1983, James Beggs, NASA administrator, heard argument after argument against the project. He studied Reagan's face throughout the meeting. Walking out the door, a colleague remarked gloomily, "I guess we lost that one." Replied Beggs: "No, we won it. I could tell from the President's eyes." Beggs was right. Reagan felt the challenge of the hat over the wall. And last week, at the memorial service for Challenger's crew, he proclaimed yet again his determination to build the manned...
Once shuttle flights do resume, it will take years--whether two, five, six or more is anyone's guess--for NASA to catch up to the flight schedule it had mapped out before Challenger exploded. Three shuttles simply cannot carry out all the missions that had been assigned to a fleet of four. Meanwhile, there is sure to be a renewed, sharp debate about the goals of the U.S. space program, the role of the shuttle and even the perennial issue of manned vs. unmanned space flight...
...been criticized by othercandidates for his failure to clarify hispositions on several key issues, drew laughsduring the questioning period when Vallely askedhim whether he believed a tax increase wasnecessary to balance the budget. At the end of histwo-minute reply period, the candidate ruefullyadmitted, "Oh gee, I guess I didn't get a chanceto answer the question...