Word: motions
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Video piracy is a huge and growing problem. With some 31 million videocassette recorders in use worldwide, 5 million of them in the U.S., an immense market has developed for motion-picture tapes. Since a film is normally not sold on cassette until about six months after its release, video pirates are filling the gap. The film industry estimates that it is losing as much as $700 million a year in ticket and cassette sales...
...addition to Jedi, which last week rang up the biggest one-day box office in history ($6.2 million). Other surefire sequels: the 13th James Bond film, Superman III and Staying Alive, the follow-up to Saturday Night Fever. Says William Nix, who heads the antipiracy division of the Motion Picture Association of America: "These films have built-in demand for illegal copies. The damage could be the worst ever...
Administration officials were less than pleased by such an order and tabled the motion indefinitely at the latest trustees meeting in April. "To lend the prestige of the institution to one side or the other of such an issue inevitably calls into question the true openness of the university to all points of view," said Princeton President William Bowen, in an open letter shortly after the vote...
...under the hood of Beeler's car. Another important fact is that there is no full-dress feud in The Feud. Beeler and Bullard are soon out of the picture, one with a fatal heart attack and the other with a nervous breakdown. But these misfortunes set in motion a series of coincidences and events...
...vivid action, Antioch was a paradigm of history on which at one time and another every kind of thinker and doer, every kind of greatness and smallness jostled together and shouldered and elbowed their way through all the lights and resonances and colors, all the smells and flavors and motion of endless variations of circumstance and event in a large and crowded arena. In a particular time people fought and lived and died for particular things; now it is small, now it is quiet...