Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During Carnesale's tenure as provost, the central administration's budget grew at a rate slower than the inflation rate, leading many within the administration to consider him a spending hawk...
...Army Lieut. Emma Cuevas, there used to be nothing to compare with the thrill of skimming the treetops of Panama at 160 m.p.h. in a 10-ton, 50-ft. Black Hawk helicopter. That was before she discovered the slower-motion joy of nursing her 21-lb., nine-month-old daughter Isabella. Since then Cuevas has twice asked the Army to let her leave the service, arguing that a pilot's demanding schedule has made it impossible for her to breast-feed her daughter properly. The Army says no, explaining that Cuevas made a deal when she became a cadet...
...performances are also big; nearly everyone in this Act-O-Rama gets a screaming scene. The tone is set by Roth, the Brit of choice for those directors who think Gary Oldman just doesn't push it far enough. It's cartoon work, really (imagine Henery Hawk trying to be the Tasmanian Devil), but fun to watch. And Shakur, as the sensible guy, plays nicely off Roth. He is both Stretch's keeper and the film's conscience. "When gettin' high becomes a job," he muses, "what's the point...
What helped the Crimson, however, was aided by 17 Mountain Hawk turnovers, many of which were of the unforced variety. Lehigh also had its troubles shooting the ball, finishing at 39.6 percent from the field for the game...
...Thursday, Albright will be the highest-ranking woman to serve in any federal government post and the first to serve as the President?s chief diplomat. Republican senators limited their criticism to the Clinton foreign policy and schmoozed with the former ambassador to the United Nations, foreign policy hawk Jesse Helms, who never made any secret of his support during the confirmation hearings, calling her "a strong lady, a courageous lady." The honeymoon is likely to be over, however, once Albright gets down to business. Helms, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, already predicted that "as time goes...