Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...improbable coalition of social conservatives and progressive Democrats were at week's end on the verge of stripping a $279 billion education bill of all its national-test money. That forced the Administration to scramble for a compromise in the Senate; to save the testing money in that version of the bill, the White House agreed to turn over control of the tests to an independent agency. And the tests might still get axed when the two chambers reconcile their respective bills next month. "Americans have asked us for common-sense education ideas," says Republican Bill Goodling of Pennsylvania...
...didn't get the response at test screenings that PolyGram wanted. So, although Altman threatened to take his name off the film, the studio had a new editor chop off eight minutes. But the new cut tested only a little better. The studio chose to keep the Altman version--and his name...
...fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in 50s Los Angeles, with all its gradations of questionable ethics and morality...
...July Yeltsin vetoed an earlier version of the bill, which ostensibly curbs foreign cults but actually restricts any faith that arrived in Russia after the communist era. But he'll sign this time, according to TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier ? even though it is exactly the same bill as before. ?Yeltsin will probably say to the West, ?Listen, guys, I did my best, this is as good as it?s going to get.? There is strong support for the bill, and he can?t afford to be seen to be too pro-Western...
...fact, Princeton Review does not plan to recall the mislabeled products. Instead, it will offer a refund to those who want one or send them an updated version of the software...