Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it comes to profits, the most successful independent movies would put many major-studio pictures to shame. Platoon, which cost $6 million, has grossed $93 million so far, while the $3.5 million A Room with a View is expected to bring in more than $50 million worldwide. Even so, independent productions remain highly risky investments, since fully half of such films never find distributors willing to handle them...
...have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without shame...
...York jury of federal racketeering charges brought against him nearly two years ago by federal prosecutors. As the jury foreman called out not-guilty findings for Gotti and six co-defendants, including Gotti's brother Gene, the triumphant Gotti jumped up, pointed to the prosecution table and said, "Shame on them! I'd like to see a verdict on them." Added his lawyer Bruce Cutler: "This is a powerful verdict...
REGARDLESS of who wins the presidential race in 1988, one can only trust that the voters will pick the man with the best hairdo. Certainly their past record is no source of shame. Except for a brief period from 1977 to 1980, no U.S. president has ever been seen in public wearing a cowlick; not only is this a source of pride, but a claim which no European or Communist country could truthfully make...
...United States must stay involved in South Africa, but it must also get involved in the South Bronx and South Boston as well," the governor said. "It would be a shame in trying to build democracy abroad, that we fail to perfect democracy at home...