Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensibility that led to making the ordinary, world-running-down feel of a ship maintaining its emergency lighting and water release a key shock point of Alien--this is missing. I don't want to see a bunch of ragtag ruffians conducting a Goonies-like escape through creepy funhouse ship, or to witness the most beautiful and most horrific outer space being being Salad-Shot through a window...
...Music, they displayed little awareness of how little difference down-tempo songs and complicated arrangements made to the record's sound. It wasn't bad (wasn't terrible, anyway) but people who bought the album, bought the hype and subsequently bought the back-catalogue noticed that Mac McCaughan's ragtag quarter sounded like a Superchunk cover band...
...hunters who had hit the wrong house. The five, who were all captured and arrested over the following three days, carried papers indicating they had been looking for a California fugitive, who seems to have had no connection to the dead couple or anyone else in the house. The ragtag crew of bounty hunters included Michael Martin Sanders, 40, convicted in 1978 on a weapons charge and in 1982 of retaliating against a murder witness. "Calling yourself a bounty hunter does not give you a license to kill," said Maricopa County prosecutor Richard Romley, who has filed second-degree murder...
...long ago, scientists would never have relied on such a ragtag band, or such low-rent equipment, to do their fieldwork. But lately that's changed. With the contraction of federal science budgets and the expansion of the World Wide Web, private research is going decidedly public. From astronomy to epidemiology to archaeology, more and more professionals are finding that when you're looking for lab assistants to collect good data at a bargain price, you can't beat the amateurs on the Internet...
KINSHASA, Zaire: The government of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo is moving quickly to consolidate power two days after Laurent Kabila's ragtag rebel soldiers marched victoriously into the capital, reports TIME's Peter Graff from Kinshasa. "Kabila's representatives met Monday with the chairmen of the major state-run enterprises and the heads of the national bank," says Graff, "and they did it very publicly." The moves have helped to stabilize the national currency, which soared from 170,000 zaire to the dollar on Friday to 50,000 to the dollar Monday. Kabila, who has assumed...