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...cost control, Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace, made thousands of recommendations on how to slash the U.S. budget deficit. Since he delivered his report to President Reagan in January 1984, Grace has waged a personal crusade against the Government's spendthrift habits. His company recently hired Movie Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) to create a TV commercial that would alert viewers to the horrors of huge deficits. The result is The Deficit Trials, 2017 A.D., a futuristic fantasy that cost about $300,000 to produce. Set in a mammoth courtroom, it shows a twelve-year-old prosecutor trying...
...Harvard heavyweight eight, which won the Henley Regatta in July, placed 14th and 16th in the championship eights. The Crimson split its best rowers into two boats and never challenged the Canadian Olympic Team (racing as the Ridley Grads) which won the event...
...role from the ground up, as if he were building a house, or raising a barn, as he helps to do in Witness. "I'm a technical actor, and my approach to both jobs is almost totally technical," he explains. "There's no magic involved, only work and circumstance." Ridley Scott, who directed Ford in the 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner, observes that, like a good carpenter, Ford is obsessive about small things. "After going over the story line, he'll turn to the details," says Scott. "He wants to know not only what the character looks like...
Although the panel strongly praised the watchdog efforts of State Department of Public Health, the department can only do "a certain amount of monitoring to enforce the limit it's set," said Nancy Ridley, who directs the EDB testing program in Massachusetts...
Rather, the Commonwealth must also count on the "voluntary compliance" of private industry, which Ridley said has been reliable in the past...