Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is something brave and original about piling up most of our worst parental nightmares in one movie and then daring to make a midsummer comedy out of them. It really shouldn't work, but it does. The movie does not linger too long over any moment or mood, and it permits characters to transcend type, offering a more surprising range of response to events. Martin, for example, gets to do distraction as well as obsession, and Robards is allowed sentiment as well as cynicism. Because Ron Howard, who was responsible for Cocoon, has a talent for ensemble hubbub, there...
...number of U.S. companies turning out hardware for the Pentagon has plummeted from 120,000 to just 40,000. At most major defense firms, profits are down and payrolls are being slashed. Los Angeles-based Northrop, which lost $78 million in the second quarter, is cutting its work force by 3,000 workers, to 41,000. St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas (1988 defense sales: $9.7 billion), the largest U.S. military contractor, reported a loss of $48 million during the same period. If Cheney sells his plan to end production of the company's AH-64 Apache helicopter...
...amplified as it ripples through the communities where plants and bases are located. Pentagon economists estimate that each dollar spent in contracts triggers $1.60 of spending in the local economy. Reductions have a roughly equal and opposite effect. On Long Island, for example, defense contractors have cut their work force of 60,000 by more than one-fifth since 1987. As a result, an estimated 26,000 other local workers, from pizza-parlor employees to department-store clerks, have lost their jobs...
Long Island-based Grumman, which has produced military jets since World War II, builds the Navy's F-14D, the highly maneuverable fighter featured in the 1986 film Top Gun. Because Congress has slowed annual production of the Tomcat to just twelve jets, Grumman is reducing its 19,000 work force by 3,100. If Cheney's proposal to cut production even further is carried out, many of the 5,600 Grumman workers who make Tomcats will be put in jeopardy...
...challenging and it is a lot of work," said Sarah Hamilton, adding that even though Career Discovery convinced her that she did not want to be a landscape architect, she enjoyed the program...