Word: strays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Austin Powers concept has been milked to the bone. Parodies have a short shelf-life--they only last until new material arrives. And, of course, the "spy" genre isn't very trendy anymore. If the makers decide to spawn more sequels, I have no doubt that Austin Powers will stray further and further from the original concept and more towards the sight and shock gags inundating movie theaters (introducing Fat Bastard as exhibit A). Unless they can reinvent Austin or give him a sidekick with the same satiric verve, New Line might just have to launch a Dr. Evil franchise...
...will be looking for signs of her influence as the Commander in Chief considers the plight of Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig says the live-ammo range there is "an important and irreplaceable site," vital to assuring Navy and Marine combat effectiveness. But after two stray 500-lb. bombs killed a security guard and injured four other civilians last April, the island's 9,300 residents declared that they had had enough. Nowhere have they found more sympathy than in New York, a city that has one-quarter the number of Puerto Ricans that Puerto Rico...
...began buying painting plants, and it is the only company in the industry that paints its own steel. Rundell boasts that "typically we are able to double the profit performance" of any company NCI takes over. Financial analysts praise NCI's managers for resisting all temptations to stray from their anti-conglomerate pattern. In all their acquisitions, says Bill Baker of Dain Raucher Inc., "they have never been seduced into areas they know nothing about...
...province, and the ground offers up body parts. Bits of ashen bone--a thigh, a rib cage--and chunks of roasted flesh litter the floors of burned-out houses. Corpses, left where they fell, putrefy in fields and farmyards amid the buzzing of flies and the howling of stray dogs. As the first of Kosovo's Albanian refugees stream back across the borders or down from hiding in the hills, they are discovering just how pitiless a charnel house Serbian forces made of Kosovo...
From the start of the conflict, the U.S. and its allies knew that after the bombing stopped, they would assume the responsibility for keeping peace in Kosovo; that it would require thousands of troops on the ground to prevent flare-ups between stray armed Serbian civilians and the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.); and that the mission would be long and costly. But all that was supposed to get going after a few days of air strikes--not after three months, during which the Serbs reduced Kosovo to a wasteland and turned more than 800,000 Kosovars into refugees. The Administration...