Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that five-second flash, India dealt a serious blow to the controlled nuclear universe. Washington's reaction was swift and furious. First, Tenet ordered a post-mortem on the CIA's failures, due in 10 days. Then the President imposed economic sanctions on India, as required by the never used 1994 Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act, cutting off military and economic aid, totaling about $140 million annually, and barring military exports and U.S. bank loans. These restrictions will not gravely damage India's economy, but the U.S. is also bound to oppose loans from the IMF and the World Bank...
Gill seems committed to improving the situation. "We already have a number of ideas for how to streamline the operation for spring term and will be doing a through post-mortem just as soon as things settle down," he wrote in and- e-mail. Given Gill's enthusiasm, we suggest that HPPS expand its space in the Science Center and hire more people to deal with the long lines...
...obsolete songs, Guthrie updates his editorial banter perennially. Songs which originally lampooned and criticized the horror and stupidity of the Vietnam War have accumulated, over the years, addenda about Watergate, the Carter Administration, global warming, NAFTA, politically correct children's books, the brainless television industry and the astonishing post-mortem Beatles reunion, as well as any number of other current events...
...scowl could knock down a tree, Muhammad gives the most memorable performance. She is engaging and her movements across the stage purposeful and powerful. One could only wish to have a mother so fiercely loyal that she would be so bad in an effort to defend one's post-mortem honor. Cheek and Legagneur transmit their characters' annoying qualities of boundless naivete and excessive idealism very well, though in general both were lacking in subtlty of emotion (not a serious liability in a melodrama of this magnitude). Legagneur's Gratuitous Shirtless Scene provided a clue to the audience...
Call this a post-mortem on the Gina Grant affair. Assuming that there are no more startling revelations, the issue appears to be on its way out, the inevitable TV movie notwithstanding...