Word: passes
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...When budgets pass about $25 million, the studio, quite legitimately, wants to have a big say in the making of the movie. At that budget, you have the obligation to temper -- a very important word -- your vision of the movie with what is commercially viable. So what goes out the window is individual vision. This could mean changing the ending of a film -- don't upset the audience; don't disappoint them...
...court upholds the Missouri law, even without reversing Roe, legislatures under pressure from pro-lifers can be expected to pass a flurry of measures making abortion more difficult. One likely tactic would be to drive up the cost, now about $235. At this session the court has been asked to consider an Illinois law that would place expensive building and staffing requirements upon abortion facilities. In an earlier case the court disallowed a law that would require first-trimester abortions to be performed in hospitals; just 13% of all current abortions take place there, mostly on an outpatient basis...
Anniversaries are television's most annoying bad habit. No TV series, it seems, can pass a milestone ending in zero (Barbara Walters' 50th special, Sesame Street's 20th season) without leading us on a forced march down Memory Lane. Now, saints preserve us, the 50th anniversary of TV itself has arrived -- at least by one measure. On April 20, 1939, RCA formally introduced the modern system of TV broadcasting at the New York World's Fair. One could just as plausibly trace TV's origin back to 1927, when the nation's first experimental TV stations went...
...Greyhounds rebounded with a speedy shot with 12:02 left in the half. Then, Loyola's Michelle Batza barely let a minute pass before attacking the net again with another goal...
Takeshita said he would go ahead with a planned nine-day trip to five Southeast Asian nations beginning Saturday, indicating he hoped Parliament would pass the budget in early...