Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gordy: "If somebody had asked me a year ago, I would never have guessed we were going to do a western." Now that de Passe has reached near the top of Hollywood's mostly white, mostly male elite, she maintains that she has no yen to jump to a major studio. Says she: "There really isn't anything out there that I am interested in. I was planted in a garden that allowed me to grow...
...misgivings over their mission, others feel hamstrung by bothersome regulations to go easy. On patrol in Gaza, a young army private named Shmuel complained, "Three weeks ago, when we tried to be lenient on them, it didn't work. The only thing they understand is an iron fist." Retired Major General Shlomo Gazit admitted, "I would say that a very strong majority would like to see more force used...
Reagan's proudest economic achievement, taming the inflation rate from 12.5% in 1980 to 4.4% last year, has also dealt a blow to some major schools of thought. Monetarists like Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...
...fiancee. Plus a couple of doped-up cops and a Jehovah's Witness concierge. The film is devious enough to have speared every foreign-language prize from U.S. critics and obvious enough that Hollywood is genuflecting at Almodovar's door. "Pedro is going to become a major director," says Orion Pictures' Mike Medavoy, "either in Hollywood or wherever he decides to work...
...copyright to commissioned "intellectual property," be it art, writing, movies or computer software. Several federal courts of appeal have split on the issue when freelance work is involved. Since millions of dollars are potentially at stake down the line, Snyder's group has found itself allied with some major corporate interests. Supporting briefs have been filed by trade associations, whose members include I.B.M., Procter & Gamble and Dow Chemical, as well as publishing companies such as the New York Times Co., Time Inc. and the Hearst Corp. Reid has also managed to attract some influential supporters. The Justice Department has taken...