Word: set
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal argument works like this: While the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibits private corporations from colluding to set prices or any other business arrangement in private, exceptions apply in cases that serve the public interest. Universities contend that by agreeing on fair financial aid awards among themselves, they deliver more aid to more deserving students...
BLACK RAIN. Michael Douglas glowers through this formulaic cop drama set in Japan. Director Ridley Scott can make anything -- a nightclub, a chase, a murder -- look sexy. But here he wastes his time -- and ours...
Such concessions were too much for some of the party's hard-liners. They set about forming their own political groups, each claiming to represent the ideals of the old Communist Party. "We will soldier on as a Communist Party," said Roland Antoniewicz, leader of the Janos Kadar Society, one newborn hard-line splinter named after the party's longtime leader who died in July...
...scurried around the French Quarter with his clarinet under his arm, looking, listening and sitting in with local jazzmen. "It was like watching Willie Mays all your life and then finding yourself in the outfield with him," Woody recalls. Festival producer George Wein even talked him into playing a set at one of the official concerts...
...them on consignment for resale in Europe, but Egypt balked at allowing the sheep through the Suez Canal and escorted the ship out of Egyptian waters. Last week the firm posted a $250,000 guarantee that no sheep or carcasses would be dumped in the canal, and the ship set sail for Italy. That seems like a happy ending, except possibly from the point of view of the sheep...