Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like an awful parade, the cranes and backhoes and heavy equipment marched in, as did the specialists with listening devices and remote-sensing equipment, and dogs to help sniff out victims. The animals discovered at least 50 people, none of them alive. One trainer brought a dog specially trained to find babies, who smell different from adults. But the only child they found was already dead...
Ever since the trade ban was lifted, moreover, a pack of U.S. companies has raced into the country to sniff out opportunities. But while the embargo's end may have opened the door, no American firm will manufacture in Vietnam products to be sold in the U.S. so long as Vietnam is not granted most-favored-nation status. Such a move enjoys growing support in the Senate, where a resolution calling for full diplomatic ties will be introduced soon. The resolution is popular for reasons that are not only economic but strategic: the end of the cold war has created...
...muttering, ``Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?'' Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire running time...
...muttering, "Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?" Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. "Gross-out grosses," its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D -- in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde -- makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire running time...
...chapters into the new novel, Richie is found deservedly dead with a pistol in his hand, his grip on the lives of Terri and her daughter does seem to tighten. Nobody believes that Richie would have been public spirited enough to commit suicide. Some very unsympathetic cops sniff around Terri and her family and finally arrest her new lover, an upstanding lawyer and senatorial candidate whose 15-year-old son the corrupt Richie had smeared with phony charges that he molested Terri's little girl...