Word: plows
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...fortune of more than $275 million, she transcends performers' usual financial insecurities, and yet with her iconic status comes the intense glare of public attention. Madonna, immensely successful as a singer, has never won respect as an actress - her 1988 Broadway stage appearance in David Mamet's Speed the Plow caused New York magazine's John Simon to grumble that "she could afford to pay for a few acting lessons." Her most successful movies are those in which she played supporting roles that traded on her headstrong image, like 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan or 1992's A League...
...Francisco, Calif., is increasing its head count each year by 297, or about 6% annually, hiring everyone from Ph.D.s to community-college grads who can work in manufacturing. Just in the budding field of bioinformatics, in which specialists can make more than $100,000 a year using computers to plow through reams of genetic data, there will be an estimated 20,000 unfilled jobs by 2005. Chemists are also being wooed across industries...
...this year," says Robert Osborne, a Hollywood Reporter columnist (and author of 70 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards), who has been fed anonymous notes and e-mail tips assailing various Oscar contenders. Gone are the days when the studios' plan was simply to plow money into trade ads touting their films and stars--to out-green the competition. Now the idea is to out-mean them...
...most revered contemporary American playwright due to his ability to create a distinct language for his characters. Listen to the way the real estate salesmen talk about the “leads” in Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren’t, but they all try to believe...
...government will plow more funds into precision-guided munitions, sophisticated communications and surveillance systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles, but "it's not clear this is going to be a Reagan-era buildup," warns Michael Vickers of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments...