Word: reckoned
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...Hogan. It's 18 years since the launch of his Crocodile Dundee franchise, which brought more than $600 million in box office receipts. And while the world has changed since then, Hogan's persona has remained stubbornly the same. Strange Bedfellows is an attempt to tweak that image. "I reckon it's all in the mannerisms," his Vince tells Ralph. "If we can learn half a dozen of them, we'll be home and hosed." Part of the problem is that Hogan's face spends most of the film in a tight scowl. And when he attempts to adopt Vince...
...Prominent Bangladeshi businessmen, who expect the security situation to deteriorate further and political agitation by the opposition to intensify, reckon there will be no significant investment in new factories for the next six to nine months. There could be worse ahead. Textiles account for 75% of Bangladesh's export value, but the start of 2005 will see the expiration of a special trade agreement that gives the country a guaranteed market for its garments in the U.S. Some experts fear that once the trade agreement ends, cheaper Chinese garments will eat away a large part of Bangladesh's export market...
...base is junior Cecily Gordon, who has seen quite a bit of playing time in her career despite backing up one of Harvard’s most touted players. In 34 at-bats last season, she had an on base percentage of .351 and should be a force to reckon with this spring. When Gordon isn’t at first, Dell’Aria and Voaklander will move over...
...this may yet come to pass. The Bush Administration remorselessly reminds anyone who will listen that it never promised a quick and easy consummation of its policies. But it has not come to pass yet, and Bush was forced to reckon last week with the reality of the enormous task he has set himself and to acknowledge that it is messier, more daunting and more complicated than he ever imagined. Bush needs help, and he has admitted as much by calling on the U.N. Security Council to pass a new resolution to encourage the flow of more money and armed...
...still get approval of a plan that favors overwhelming force. "Rumsfeld doesn't always know what he wants, but he knows what he doesn't want," a Pentagon official says. "Franks is good at finding him what he wants." Franks explains the give-and-take in the hard-to-reckon Pentagon dialect: "The process of planning is, in fact, a process--it is not a thing... Whatever we do will be executed somewhere in the middle of an ongoing planning activity." (Translation: We're going to be arguing about how to fight this war right up until the moment...