Word: spells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dangerous, as the conventional wisdom has long held? Or has inflation been so tamed that output can safely grow at a rate of 3% to 3.5%, as more and more economists and businessmen now think? After all, the U.S. has enjoyed four years of inflation below 3%, the longest spell of price stability in three decades. Could the economy perhaps race ahead at 4% or even more, as a few radicals contend...
...smoking, but somehow he misspoke himself into a controversy that lasted several days." Despite Dole's recent problems, Barrett says he still has ample time to get in the saddle. The Republican convention is still weeks way, and Dole has yet to name his running mate and more clearly spell out his policies. "In the summer of 1988, Dukakis was ahead of Bush, and in the summer of 1992," Barrett notes, "Clinton had only just begun pulling ahead." -- Anita Hamilton
...conductor of ID4's wild ride, is a can-do scholar of Hollywood moviemaking; he has built a reputation for efficient melodramas on modest budgets. (For all its locations and effects and the mandatory cast of thousands, ID4 reportedly cost a thrifty $71 million.) Emmerich first fell under the spell of science fiction as a boy watching U.S. films as well as local sci-fi TV shows in his native Germany. "For me," he says, "going on a science-fiction movie set is like visiting toyland. You see, my brother trashed all my toys when...
Midway through a long spell of bad news, Bill Clinton took the stage of Constitution Hall in Washington last Thursday to address the Presidential Scholars, a group of high school honor students, along with their parents and teachers. "This has been sort of a crazy week around here," he admitted. Given that this was an especially brainy gathering, he jokingly asked if anybody could help him get a handle on things. "I was hoping," he said, "maybe one of the scholars could explain chaos theory...
...since. "Here," Gance said, "was a new alphabet for the cinema." But with the entry of talking films that year, the language of silents became as obsolescent as Yiddish. Films got chatty, conservative; they still are. Most modern directors don't know Gance's "alphabet." They can barely spell...