Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach George Ford's seventh season may see Keller-Sarmiento at an uncustomary center position, as Ford seeks a more potent offensive combination. Captain Michael Smith, an outstanding mid-fielder, should also provide some needed spark in the opposing zone...
...billion or so by 1984. With West German help, for example, he intends to turn Brazil into an exporter of such high-technology items as nuclear reactors. Unfortunately, most of Brazil's industry is so tightly controlled by an oppressive bureaucracy that it generally lacks the entrepreneurial spark to compete effectively in world markets...
...Survivalists" spark a boom in doom and the profits follow...
...whole film, it can be said, is intended as a pleasantly nasty sexual fantasy, with all its extravagance and questionable taste registering as expressions of DePalma's basic idea that sex is a dark dirty joke. This is true so far as it goes, and there's a spark of additional interest in light of the film's attention to masturbation--as part of the characters' lives, and as a projected activity of the voyeuristic audience, the director and his unrestrainable camera. But the movie is hardly so sharply focused and all of a piece for this to be given...
...submarines are estimated at $10-billion, to be absorbed over 15 years. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Tory government appears to be set on the Trident option, and the Iron Lady is expected to announce that decision to the Commons later this month. The announcement will probably spark strong opposition...