Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with no permits and a minimal crew. The gritty starkness of the scenes gives the movie a sincere, authentic feel. When the six friends go out to a nightclub, Araki uses the dim, reddish lights, loud generic music and their encounter with two guys in drag to convey the raw alienation of the kids...
Before the researchers can even get started, however, they will have to confront some major questions: How will the genetic sequences be used, and who will benefit from them? Genetic information is the raw material of the burgeoning biotechnology industry, which uses human DNA to build specialized proteins that may have some value as disease-fighting drugs. Activists for indigenous populations fear that the scientists could exploit these peoples: genetic material taken from blood samples could be patented for commercial use without adequate compensation to the tribes that provide...
...violated just about every rule of modern warfare. The slow-motion operation gave the rebels plenty of time to organize and arm. A barrage of air strikes failed to do anything but stiffen resistance. Once the fight was joined, the Chechens made hash of the raw Russian troops, ill-trained and unprepared, who fought poorly and used tactics any military academy cadet would be expected to avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket launchers, grenades, even Molotov cocktails...
...harshness made even a few supporters squeamish. The case for NAFTA has always focused on the long term: that freer trade would slowly boost prosperity on both sides of the border, notwithstanding acute growing pains; and that by making Mexicans less threatening neighbors, it would eventually mute the raw nativism that is surfacing in California and elsewhere. That case looks at least as strong today as a year...
...this is on the "new" Beatles album Live at the BBC, a two-disc CD of 56 songs the band played live on the radio. In its raw comprehensiveness, Live at the BBC (supervised by Beatles record producer George Martin) documents the group's vertiginous rise in a three-year period that marked both the birth of pop music's international era and a sweet autumnal bloom in rock's age of innocence...