Word: hooked
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...gagged up The Flintstones movie received credit. Paul Rudnick wrote the original script for Sister Act and the final version of The Addams Family, but his name was on neither film. Carrie Fisher did a polish on Sister Act, but her work was anonymous, as it was on Hook, Made in America and Lethal Weapon 3. On Wolf, Wesley Strick's surgery earned him co-author credit; Elaine May's consultation was a secret known only to all Hollywood...
University Off the Hook...
...tobacco industry, under increasing government fire over allegations that it manipulated the nicotine content of its products to hook smokers, took another big hit. FDA Commissioner David Kessler told a House health subcommittee that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. developed and grew a high-nicotine tobacco plant and used it in several of its brands. CEO Thomas Sandefur contended that cigarettes made using the plant did not contain more nicotine. Meanwhile, the Justice Department announced its own investigation of tobacco-industry practices -- including the question of whether tobacco executives misled Congress...
...others and the reverberating links between past and future, she is abruptly transformed in the final moments into an educated wife and mother. This evolution is a metaphor for what Ayckbourn believes many of Britain's neglected downtrodden could achieve. But he won't let the audience off the hook with an uncomplicatedly happy ending. The flashing lights outside, seemingly signs of a festival or movie premiere, are at last revealed to be the flares of an ongoing civil war pitting London's inner suburbs against one another. Just as the farce is bringing reassuring order to its microcosmic world...
This change is expected to reduce the time required to hook undergraduates up to the network from the current rate of three days to less than 24 hours. Ninety-two percent of the members of the Class of 1997 have accounts on the Internet, a data communication network...