Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Above the fighters is the intel package: E-3 AWACS and E-2C radar planes, E-8 Joint STARS ground-surveillance planes and RC-135 Rivet Joint planes. They comb the sky and ground for the enemy, feed targets to pilots and keep allied warplanes safely apart. When you near your target, you peel off from your buddies, dodging antiaircraft artillery and corkscrewing missiles...
...home, Pepsi's restructuring--and the cash thrown off by the IPO--allows it to take dead aim at Coke's near monopoly in fountain soda sales. It's a hugely important part of the business. Pepsi holds its own in grocery and discount stores, but the fountain business gushes profits for Coke. Now, free of the restaurant business ("Why buy from one of your competitors?" Coke sales reps used to be able to say to fast-food operators), Pepsi can become more effective. Even if the campaign doesn't win many big accounts--it did win Bojangles and Pizza...
Bill Bradley's leather shoes are cracked, and his suit and tie--as he makes a point of telling me at a doughnut shop in Claremont, near the Vermont border--are suffering through their second straight campaign day. For the former New Jersey Senator, an insurgent trying to grab the Democratic nomination from Al Gore, genteel shabbiness signifies authenticity. Bradley wants you to know he's got bigger things--purer things--on his mind, and the doughnut shop is packed with people who have come to hear about them (and a few who just want coffee and crullers). Ten months...
...right, what powerful man doesn't also want to be universally respected and loved? But now, sitting in a dark theater at ILM looking at his near-finished film, Lucas seems bracingly lighthearted. "What's that? White dirt on the print?" he asks. "Yeah, that's good dirt," says a wiseacre, and everybody laughs. Lucas is a genius at fussing: a sun is setting too fast in one shot, while in others, he wants light rays bouncing off buildings, more traffic, less confetti. No one acts cowed by the billionaire boss...
...perhaps this new version of Tommy is oversimplified, fraught with terrible acting and less-than-polished voices, and does not deserve to have either McAnuff or Pete Townshend's good names attached to anything near...