Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to continue to work hard to coordinate our economic policies in the manner envisaged by the Plaza and Louvre ((international monetary)) accords. And each country needs to do its utmost to take actions that are sometimes very difficult politically. We must recognize that more and more we are an interdependent world...
...turns out, Weeds meanders as much as the motley group, and Hancock intersperses comedy with melodrama in such a casual manner that we are left looking for the method in his madness...
...added, along with a pair of heavy-duty relievers, Juan Berenguer from San Francisco and Jeff Reardon from Montreal. Greg Gagne has been a joyous shortstop, and Rightfielder Tom Brunansky a force at the plate. Still and all, Homerdome or away, the critical ingredient may have been the calm manner of Kelly...
While one can talk openly about the picture's manner, one dare not get into its intricate plotting, which tweaks, turns and doubles back on itself. House of Games is not a vehicle carrying a Mamet moral; it is the moral, telling us much about the irresistible pull of our own cleverness and how that must inevitably bring us to disaster. It is Margaret, the tyro games player, who turns out to be a bad sport. She demonstrates in a startling way that some funny, phony games can turn out to have deadly consequences. Finally, she must stop pretending...
...genial Abe, 63, worked as Nakasone's highly visible Foreign Minister from 1982 to 1986, logging 39 official trips abroad. Open and easy in manner, he is the closest in style to Nakasone, a man who reshaped Japanese politics by being dynamic and forceful...