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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harrison Ford is like one of those sports cars that advertise acceleration ! from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in three or four seconds. He can go from slightly broody inaction to ferocious reaction in approximately the same time span. And he handles the tight turns and corkscrew twists of a suspense story without losing his balance or leaving skid marks on the film. But maybe the best and most interesting thing about him is that he doesn't look particularly sleek, quick or powerful; until something or somebody causes him to gun his engine, he projects the seemly aura...
...real effect: a homemade video of a black motorist being beaten by police succeeded in burning down a sizable part of Los Angeles. The moral struggle between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown seemed perfect and fascinating, as if all the weaknesses of both politics and television (the short attention span, the brainless evanescence, the disconnection) were leaking into one another...
ROSS PEROT SAYS HE'S NOT A POLITICIAN, BUT HE CERTAINLY has a talent for causing political controversy when he starts talking. Last week when Perot told C-SPAN that President Reagan had encouraged him to accept a 1987 invitation from Vietnam to go to Hanoi and that he delivered an important report to the President when he returned, some former White House officials were outraged. They say that everyone -- the President included -- was totally opposed to Perot's trip but that the tenacious Texan could not be dissuaded. Once in Hanoi, these former Reagan aides say, Perot inappropriately contradicted...
...growth. Japan has assumed a huge profile in the Australian economy, with 1 in 10 Australian jobs now in some way generated by Japanese demand, according to Gavan McCormack, an Australian visiting professor at the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research. The transformation has taken place in an astonishingly brief span of time...
...performance-contract system, similar to one advocated by the National Academy of Sciences, but they face roadblocks from builders. Heavy lobbying from the construction industry eliminated such a provision in the 1991 federal highway act, passed last fall. The industry especially dreads being asked to guarantee the life-span of its products, arguing that it is unreasonable without knowing for certain what the traffic will be like, despite the fact that European contractors routinely make these assurances. Such warranties, insists David Lukens of the Associated General Contractors of America, are "an invitation to litigation and a field day for lawyers...