Word: pours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year. By 1989 the gross domestic product was growing again in per capita terms. A debt-reduction agreement the next year started foreign money flowing back in, especially from the U.S. With the passage of NAFTA, which made Mexico's prospects brighter still, the money continued to pour...
...also pour out. By the end of the Salinas years, an emerging middle class was gorging on imported automobiles, televisions and other luxuries. Between 1987 and 1993, while exports grew by roughly half, imports quadrupled. Meanwhile, Mexico's poor, perhaps 40% of the population, were still waiting % for the benefits of growth. On Jan. 1, 1994, the same day that NAFTA went into effect, some of the poorest began a 12-day uprising in the remote southern highlands of Chiapas. The government arrived at a shaky peace with the rebels, but it was just the start of a year that...
...heavy box makes for a winning case and worldwide media attention, when women have been listening to penis jokes and making coffee for decades. Sure, complaints about failing to be promoted simply because they were men in a women's world are serious. But before the Jenny Craig Eight pour their heart out to Sally Jessy Raphael, they should check with all the women who have looked up the corporate ladder and seen 10 men for every woman and wondered how they could prove their lack of success was due to some failure in the corporate culture...
Despite its convoluted narrative, "Helas Pour Moi" is visually mesmerizing. Stunningly photographed on the banks of a Swiss lake, with vivid, rippling blue water and fields of poppies, the film looks gorgeous. The cinematography, combined with the Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky soundtrack, makes the movie a sumptuous, sensual experience. The performances are also superb. Instead of being loud and bombastic, Depardieu's performance is unusually restrained and quite compelling...
...Helas Pour Moi" has been called Godard's most contemplative and spiritual film to date. This may be so, but it is also highly inaccessible and abstract. After sitting through all 84 minutes, the film's title never seemed apter...