Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jaws ever make money? The pain and payoff of Jaws surely prompted Sheinberg, who had supervised it, to meet with Waterworld's producers long before the shooting began and ask, "My God, do you guys know what you're getting into?" Gordon's reply: "We think we have an idea of what we're getting into. And we're sure it'll be worse than what we think...
After two decades in which affirmative action has been more widely used in hiring, awarding contracts and school admissions, misgivings about it are reaching a critical mass. A 1994 Times Mirror poll shows for the first time in eight years that a majority of whites agree with the idea ``We have gone too far in pushing equal rights in this country.'' In the federal courts several cases have been filed by angry whites that challenge race-based preferences. And in a development that could start a national free-for-all on the issue, Californians are expected to face a ballot...
...lieutenant in the 103rd Airborne Division, commanded by General Pavel Grachev, who is now our Defense Minister. But the harrowing situation on the streets of Grozny was like nothing I had ever experienced in Afghanistan. The commander of my vehicle had no map of the city and no idea where he was going. He was not even able to make radio contact with the other two APCs and admitted that he had simply been thrown together with soldiers and vehicles from different units and told to advance into the city...
With his professorial looks and wooden rhetoric, Lionel Jospin is nobody's idea of a charismatic candidate. His detractors claim he is boring, strident and stiff as a broom handle; the best his supporters can say about him is that he is earnest, honest and faithful to Socialist ideals. Yet the onetime economics teacher and former Education Minister pulled off a small miracle last week: within two days of winning the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, he saw his poll ratings rise four points. The modest increase was the first sign that the beleaguered Socialists might actually survive into...
...tough world, with a lot of competition,'' says the elegant beauty, who not long ago was a hoyden galloping on horseback along a California beach. A few more months of couture and Eastwood, 22, returns to her Los Angeles acting classes. As for Dad, says daughter, ``He likes the idea that I'm living abroad, working hard and earning a living.'' It makes...