Word: repossess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film is somewhat interesting, especially in its manic depiction of life on the edge, of people about to go off the deep end, except the inside joke is obscured to the point of non-recognition. It's fun to watch punks, secret agents, and "repo" men--those guys who repossess cars from people behind on their payments--chase each other around; problem is, there's supposed to be a point to it all, and the viewer just doesn...
...might be to encourage Congress to seek even more power than it wielded before, by passing hundreds or thousands of narrow, specific prescriptions on presidential prerogatives. "The court's decision," said G.O.P. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, "has catapulted Congress into years of complex, cumbersome legislative activity to repossess our original powers." Georgia Democrat Elliott Levitas, who for years has been the House's leading proponent of the legislative veto, was more vivid. "We've got a real governmental train wreck on our hands," he said, "and we've got to get it back on track...
...police are after him, suspecting him of murder. Some renegade CIA agents are also in nasty pursuit, convinced he helped repossess some missile plans that they went to a lot of trouble to steal from the Government. No question about it, mild-mannered Architect Michael Jordan (Gene Wilder) has to run for cover. But when he packs his bag, he pauses to match up his socks and then roll them up into prim little balls, just the way his mother taught...
...stores netted annual sales revenues of more than 30 million. Until the French began to ditch escargot for Egg McMuffins, McDonald's home office in Oakbrook, Illinois had left Dayan virtually alone. But as profits increased, Dayan argues, so did the desire on the part of company executives to repossess his suddenly prosperous market. In 1977, McDonald's began to send inspectors to Paris. After several attempts to buy the operation went nowhere, McDonald's terminated Dayan's license, on the grounds that he failed to maintain...