Word: projections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sought to infiltrate the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, the country's civilian counter-espionage agency. But the most sensitive target was Montreal-based Paramax Electronics, a subsidiary of the U.S. defense contractor Unisys and the prime subcontractor on a frigate- building project for the Canadian navy. In that role, Paramax has access to highly classified American technology involving radar and sonar capabilities and computers that control shipboard weapons systems...
...time?" an incredulous Eddie asks Roger after the rabbit slips his shackles. "Not at any time," comes the retort. "Only when it was funny." Such are the Toontown laws of physics; they do not always apply to this movie. Every framed frame is beguiling, as befits a pioneering project made by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and ace Animator Richard Williams. But not all the gags -- even those quoted from such Bugs Bunny classics as Falling Hare and Rabbit Seasoning -- have the limber wit of the cartoons that inspired them. Nor do the human actors add much. Hoskins...
...part of its war on drugs, the U.S. reached an agreement with Peru to test Spike's effectiveness on its cocaine crop. The State Department wants to supply Peru with the herbicide for an eradication project in the Upper Huallaga Valley, along the eastern Andes, where much of the world's coca is grown. Peru would get the assistance; Lilly would get the order; and the coca would get annihilated...
What is clear, however, is that the anchor had a remarkable gift for talking to a TV camera. Blair recounts that Savitch once told a colleague that her trick was to focus on a spot in the middle of her head and project it through her eyes to the other side of the lens. "She would send this energy force out like a laser," he recalled. "You'd step back and say, 'Christ! What was that...
...latest F-20 revelations come at a bad time for Northrop. The company, long a target of Government probes into bribery charges, is under pressure from the Pentagon to improve the workmanship on its $46 billion Stealth-bomber project and to speed up the delivery of guidance devices for its MX missile. Now Northrop must answer a round of new questions about one of its old mistakes...