Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gift, he has signed up to do a production of Romeo and Juliet later this year in the north of England, and is reading the script for a part in a Sylvester Stallone movie. "I've been asked," Gift reports, "to play one of his muscles." He smiles. Sure, he'll give it a go. And maybe be good at it too. There may be a sufficiency of talent, but there is certainly no time to talk...
...sure, the Federal Government's role in education is limited, since the states and local school boards wield most of the policymaking power. But Cavazos seems reluctant to take charge even in the areas that are clearly his. He has yet to promulgate all the regulations for the School Improvements Act, an $8.2 billion bill passed last year that would extend existing programs and create new ones, including dropout prevention. Legislation to promote alternative certification programs, Bush's suggested method for combatting the teacher shortage, has gone nowhere on Capitol Hill, say detractors, because Cavazos has failed to rally public...
Early this month, at a meeting of Moscow-based members of the new legislature attended by Mikhail Gorbachev, Gdlyan delivered a 47-minute speech charging top Communists with corruption. Soviet sources say that when he finished, Gorbachev advised him to make sure he was right "because I will ask you tough questions." A few days later, Pravda disclosed that Gdlyan would be suspended from his post as prosecutor. The official reason: misconduct in a 1983 corruption investigation of Estonian scientist and nationalist Johannes Khint...
...number of systems could dwindle to a handful. "The same thing happened in the movie industry 50 years ago," says Robert Thomson, Tele- Communications' vice president for government relations. "They once had many more studios." With that prospect in mind, the major cable companies are scrambling today to make sure they do not wind up on the cutting-room floor tomorrow...
...released head to head, each of them could hit a home run." Notes producer Laurence Mark: "Sequels aren't necessarily about a failure of the Hollywood imagination. They're about lowering risks." So why, in a business full of expensive risks, shouldn't Hollywood be allowed just one near-sure thing...