Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fiscal-1992 budget he submitted last February, Bush boosted spending for basic research 13%, but most federal R. and D. dollars still go into weapons development, which yields few mass-market spin-offs. In the past year, the warnings about that imbalance have grown starker. As the Office of Technology Assessment stated in a blunt report in October, "If there are no major changes in government policies of developed nations, we expect U.S. manufacturing competitiveness to continue to sink, compared with Japan...
Thursday: Spin Doctors with Life In Between, Dreams Made Flesh and Tsunami Poets...
...ADDAMS FAMILY. This elegant spin-off from the Charles Addams drawings and the '60s TV series is worth seeing for the casting alone: Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Raul Julia as Gomez, Christina Ricci as the elfin ghoul Wednesday. A one-joke movie -- every gag is about the aristocracy of decay -- but handsomely told...
...first novel, WLT: A Radio Romance, trips off his tongue as smoothly as an old-time Lutheran gospel, and it flows as easily as sketches on his old radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. WLT is the latest of several published works, but anyone who has heard Keillor spin tales about Lake Wobegon-told between wheezes and long pauses-or any of his favorite topics cannot separate the literary voice from the oral tradition, the printed text from the waves of sound...
Reprisals could include a break in airline links between Libya and the outside world or an embargo on purchases of Libyan oil. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater even hinted at military action. But that might give only another spin to a long-running cycle of violence. To avenge the bombing, allegedly by Libya, of a German disco that killed two American soldiers, U.S. warplanes struck Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986. Speculation is that Gaddafi ordered the Lockerbie bombing in retaliation...