Word: judds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senate Republicans, in a move that could seize the deficit-cutting initiative from more radical House members, unveiled proposals for nearly half a trillion dollars in painful spending cuts by the year 2000. A Senate G.O.P. task force, led by Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, seeks to force $475 billion in cuts from massive entitlement programs: $89 billion from projected welfare costs of $600 billion, and as much as $275 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, which are now projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases...
...clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about an era that gave us Robert James Waller and the Ricki Lake show? Ah, the professor replies sagely, but during the '90s one could attend a movie safely knowing that it would not star Judd Nelson...
Elias, who set 21 school records and three NCAA Division I-AA marks, is the first Princeton player to win the award since running back Judd Garrett won it in 1989, a year after Tiger quarterback Jason Garrett...
Ruby Lee Gissing (Ashley Judd) is a high-school graduate who leaves her native Tennessee town--a place she claims she was lucky to escape without getting beat up or pregnant--to start a new life in Panama Beach City, Florida. She quickly finds a job selling souvenirs at Chamber's Beach Emporium and has a quick fling with the manager's heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby...
...Ashley Judd's Ruby is a very strong, sensitive and believable character. Judd's performance carries the film, as some of the other characters are often caricatures or embody exaggerations of a personality trait. Some of the dialogue is so extreme as to be simply unbelievable. At times, Ruby seems to be the lone sane person immersed in a sea of irrationality...