Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What he had done, Ho explained, was begin an experiment that might, under the right circumstances, eliminate the virus from a small group of men caught within three months of infection. He couldn't offer the same hope to the estimated 100,000 patients in later stages of infection who in the past year have begun taking the same antiviral "cocktails"--often with encouraging results--but whose AIDS is probably too far advanced for them to expect a long-term recovery...
...rent and pretty much self-satirizing. Maybe this is an all too conspicuous waste of precious cinematic resources. But you have to admire everyone's chutzpah: the breadth of Burton's (and writer Jonathan Gems') movie references, which range from Kurosawa to Kubrick; and above all their refusal to offer us a single likable character. Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity. And those little guys from far away are a hoot...
This hadn't occurred to me until last week, when I was talking to a television reporter about the controversy over the rating system that will be used to offer parents guidance about which programs they may want to block. The television industry, which is in the enviable position of writing its own warning label, has resisted the content-based system favored by virtually everybody else, presumably on the theory that warnings of violent or suggestive content could scare off viewers and advertisers...
...most of their programs listed in the paper with an accompanying V for Violence or L for Language or S for Sex. Think about what could happen if the industry ever lost control of the ratings, and someone like the editor in charge of the television listings decided to offer absolutely honest appraisals. The daytime talk shows would be rated PE for Pathetic Exploitation; the shopping channel would carry a UA for Untrammeled Acquisitiveness; and most sitcoms would be rated MT for Mindless Trash...
...able to meet longterm financial commitments, such as home mortgages and college tuition. Nearly 30 percent of U.S. workers lost their jobs from 1990 to 1995 due to job cuts or company shutdowns, and the new jobs that most find pay less, include slimmer benefits, and offer little promise of security...