Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia, only the radical Communists and Nationalists present a genuine threat of such a reverse. These groups depend for their legitimacy, like any alarmist political party, on the perception that Russia is threatened by international forces drawing together against her. Nothing more clearly could convey this impression than the invitation by NATO to these three countries to join an alliance designed specifically to oppose Russia...
Perhaps the State Department could use a little basic Marxist theory. It might be better than whatever theory underpins their present actions, which so effectively create an impression of an American nation inimical to other entire nations and ethnic and religious groups. Whatever that theory is, it seems to bear a disturbing resemblance to another, rather more distasteful theory that also employed totalitarianism in the early part of this century: National Socialism...
Unlike most horror movies these days, Chucky has a smart, talented director in Hong Kong's Ronny Yu, who also directed the excellent Cantonese-language Bride With White Hair. Chucky's Hong Kong action-movie heritage is evident in the extreme violence and good, lame humor present. Everything bursts into flames and blows up: a police car, a RV, a waterbed (no joke) and much more. A person hit by a Mack truck is completely atomized. John Ritter (as the police chief out to separate our teen lovers) is murdered horribly--twice! A goth who wears Speedos (played by another...
...games, the staff provides game guidelines for the general session. Boston Paintball has only some necessary safety rules, including a requirement that players to wear protective facegear at all times on the field. Though companies and colleges in the area provide many of the patrons, sometimes former and present military officers as well as police come to hone their skills. The State Police, Boston Police and Special Task Forces use the facilities for training...
Attendance fluctuated throughout the elections with about 50 people present during the most highly contested elections...