Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capsule review] "It might have been entertaining if it were better acted, with better sets, better special effects, and an hour shorter...
...taste of the fervor that will surround the release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace next week. On this chilly night, I found myself standing in line at approximately a quarter to midnight, waiting for doors to be opened--the doors of Toys 'R Us, which was holding a special event to commemorate the release of toys for the new film...
...watch it on the big screen with surround-sound. And instead of knights and princesses, evil stepmothers and swordfights, we get space travel and lightsabers, droids and the Force. "Star Wars" is everything from our deepest fantasies, projected onto "a galaxy far, far away," with a heavy dose of special effects and a storyline that is as human as it is timeless. A classic fairytale, if you will, for modern times...
...billion request for Kosovo funds and double it, burnishing the GOP's pro-defense reputation and supporting the troops too. But soon, Clinton's expected signature began to sound like a dinner bell, and by the time negotiations on the "emergency funding" bill wound up Thursday night, the special interests had piled on. Now it's a sloppy $14.7 billion porker -- complete with a controversial permit for a gold mine on a pristine Washington State mountain and $3 million to aid commercial reindeer herders in Alaska. It could have been worse. Some $270 million in supports...
...Whatever the merits of the measure," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "Republicans have handed the Democrats a great issue in the wake of Littleton." Though it?s no secret that both parties regularly cater to the special interest groups that back their elections, says Branegan, "Senator Larry Craig?s admission that the NRA had 'grudgingly' accepted the latest Republican gun-show measure was an amazing statement." It opens him up, and the Republican party as well, to questions as to whom they are working for. The Democrats intend to keep this matter alive as long as they...