Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly last week? McCain's landmark tobacco bill would have raised at least $516 billion over the next 25 years from higher cigarette taxes while increasing regulation, capping liability and fighting teen smoking. President Clinton was staking the finale of his presidency on moving the bill--not to mention the $65.5 billion worth of education and health programs in his budget that were pegged to new revenues. A majority of Senators supported some kind of legislation, and the public had clearly signaled its disgust for a mendacious industry that had been exposed in a series of court cases for specifically...
...century's major sources of entertainment and reigned for 30 years. Without radio, there would have been no TV. Radio first brought to prominence Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, Ozzie and Harriet, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, Lucille Ball and Edward R. Murrow--not to mention the creation of the soap opera, newscast, quiz show, talk show, domestic comedy and live sportscast. Not bad for one little medium. GERALD NACHMAN San Francisco...
China demands an epic. The country has size, majesty, mystery, history. Not to mention the Great Wall, the Long March, the Hundred Flowers and the Great Leap Forward. (China also had a great marketing department.) A movie about China ought to be long, lush, cruel and beautiful -- all good and marketable qualities. So why did Hollywood make so few of them...
...World Cup, the quadrennial global soccer championship being fought out in nine cities across France this month and next, brings out all the best and worst of nationalist sentiments, not to mention the most incredible soccer talent on earth. It's a spectacle that dwarfs the Olympics in national emotion. Nobody gets upset in Italy if the gymnastics team doesn't win a medal, but if the beloved Azzuri falters, the players may want to return home wearing disguises...
Despite anticipation that Robinson would speakabout the recent peace accord in Ireland, shefailed to mention it. Still listeners werepleased...