Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEEN CALLED BOTH A dictatorial "monster" and a modern-day Jose Marti, | determined to vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...
...Masvidal, a co- creator of the foundation who left in a leadership dispute seven years ago, say they are not fooled. "Jorge has always had a well-established agenda of his own," warns Masvidal. "He is on a quest to become the future dictator of Cuba. He is a monster in the making...
Sales in the music department have fallen, facing competition from monster retailers HMV and Tower Records have fallen. At the same time, the department that sells Harvard insignia merchandise--the Coop's cash cow--has flourished. Textbooks, which most students associate with the Coop, have never been a big money maker...
...ethnic animosity, often expressed as resentment of a "big brother" arrogance on the part of the Czechs. But it also reflects the Prague government's refusal to keep subsidizing such Slovak heavy industries as the aluminum plant in the town of Ziad Nad Hronom, an antiquated, pollution-belching monster. Whether an independent Slovakia can keep such industries going is questionable. Unemployment in Slovakia is already 12%, four times the Czech rate, and it has been held to that level only with the aid of heavy subsidies coming from Prague. But having threatened to secede and been told, in effect...
...SQUAD looks downright fresh. The new CBS series, about three brothers who wear black fedoras as members of a police special-crimes unit, is in many ways the most preposterous new show of the season. In last week's premiere, the villain, a sadistic ex-con, was an unstoppable monster straight out of Friday the 13th, and the action scenes (including a bungee-jump knockout) made Road Runner cartoons look realistic. Still, creator Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team, Hunter) has a knack for vivid characters and punchy dialogue, and he invests the genre with the good-vs.-evil intensity...