Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinistas, on the other hand, are hoping to cripple severely the contra resistance--putting them in a greatly weakened position for their first high-level face-to-face negotiations within Nicaragua this week. Indeed, Costa Riean President and Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who has repeatedly criticized the Nicaraguan government's failure to comply with the peace plan he designed, denounced last week's Honduran raid as a blow to the peace process and said it revealed that the Sandinistas are more concerned with eliminating the contras than negotiating with them...
This is apparent in her association with the Livingstones, Oscar, Dorrie and their 27-year-old daughter Heather. Oscar is an accountant who, as Rachel puts - it, was "inherited" from her father. This air of Oscar as family retainer does not last long. He wins millions in the national football pool, retires and asks Rachel if she would be good enough to guide their placid daughter in the ways of modern womanhood. The shift in social distinction is subtle but apparent: Rachel may be hard-nosed and independent, but whether or not she notices, she has been cast...
REPORTER- RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O' Hara- Forster, Victoria Sales (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John...
...frequent visitors to the local video outlet know, there is scant middle ground these days. Most recent Hollywood releases, such as Dirty Dancing and RoboCop, are hitting the stores with a stiff suggested list price of nearly $90 -- or even $99.95, in the case of last year's Oscar winner Platoon. Yet some big hits, like Top Gun and "Crocodile" Dundee, have been introduced at a much more affordable $29.95 or less. Confused consumers may ask: Why the discrepancy? The answer goes to the heart of a key issue facing the home-video industry: figuring out which movies VCR owners...
REPORTER- RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O' Hara- Forster, Victoria Sales (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John...