Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is where Sid's brothers--the Unstrung Heroes of this movie's title--come in. They live behind multilocked doors, surrounded by tons of old newspapers, in a downtown slum. Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) is a wild-eyed, left-wing paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...sharpest blow to multinationals came in the state of Maharashtra, where right-wing politicians on Aug. 3 canceled the largest overseas investment ever made in India-a $2.8 billion electric-power plant that Enron Corp. of Houston was building near Bombay. Enron, which broke ground in March and stands to lose $300 million if it abandons the venture, is seeking talks aimed at permitting work to resume. "This is typically Indian," says Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, which runs an Indian mutual fund. "For every three steps forward, they take two steps back...
There's always the U.S., of course, the very birthplace of organized feminism. But how welcome would the delegates feel in a country where the leading Republican candidate for President has denounced the conference for what he sees as its "left-wing ideological agenda"? And wouldn't it be depressing to meet in a land where abortion rights are under violent assault, where affirmative action looks to be doomed, and where the percentage of congressional seats held by women is sinking back toward the single-digit level...
...start by bringing in the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing," I began, "and the 82d Airborne, and a carrier." I kept adding follow-up units...
Powell: Philosophically, the party is wider than you might expect just from listening to the ordinary rhetoric. There are a lot of Republicans who are somewhat silent and tend to be more in the moderate, Rockefeller vein. In order to appeal to the active wing of the party, most candidates are tacking to the right, and that seems to be what Bob Dole is doing...