Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear Alpine air: Has the U.S. economy--the world's largest and most influential--banished the business cycle? Has the combination of high technology, globalized markets and unprecedented labor flexibility created a new paradigm of continual growth that can serve as a model for the rest of the planet...
...wonderful thing about the Star Wars movies was that, bound by the lack of technology, the film-makers had to opt for the more difficult process of location shooting and make Tunisia look like Tattoine. And you find, upon viewing, that Tunisia looks more like an actual, physical planet than your computer screen does, whatever you've drawn...
...Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. He wrote it in longhand, and then typed it out; the typescript ran to more than 15,000 pages. It is a seemingly endless, repetitious and obsessively detailed narrative of child martyrdom, massacre and Edenic innocence set on an imaginary planet largely populated by moppets...
...branch if the vote passed. Ed Gould, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada, says that Wal-Mart stands firm in its belief that the vote accurately reflected the wishes of Windsor employees. Threats to close stores are not part of what made Wal-Mart "the most popular retailer on planet earth," maintains Gould. Maybe, but not having to battle with union demands for salary hikes certainly didn't hurt either. In an effort to keep the union drive from spreading to other Canadian stores, Wal-Mart is considering an appeal. Meanwhile, pro-union employees, slated to be represented by United...
...opening logo has acquired the classic blockiness of a '56 DeSoto. One can find endearment in the lame badinage of C-3PO, in Carrie Fisher's bagel-like hairdo, in the whining and bickering of the lead characters, in the varying pronunciations of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Alderaan. The invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself with the majesty of a Jedi knight and an acting peer. The climactic dogfight, copied in a quillion arcade games, has thrust...