Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...happiest guy in the whole world," said Ginsberg, standing before the Lebanese border where the signs of a battle between two Shiite Muslim factions--flares and white billowy puffs of smoke--are just beginning to show themselves. "As long as I'm on top of things, I'm in control of my own destiny here...
Moving right along, the Crimson proceeded to dictate, dominate and control the next 70 minutes. The entire offensive line played fast and furious, frustrated only in its inability to nab a tying goal. In her first collegiate game, freshman Laurie Uustal put away the only Crimson goal early in the second half. It wasn't a neat and tidy, Sports Illustrated cover-photo goal, but it did eliminate the deficit...
...region, in an effort to extend and protect its domain, attacks a strategically placed--but militarily defenseless--country in its "backyard." Haunted by past war failures and a need to justify an awesome war machine, the "liberator" fears that the resources of the neighboring country may slip from its control...
...Times piece, written by Christopher Robbins, author of the book on which the movie was based, noted that "the CIA did not lack funds for its war in Laos, and the U.S. embassy in Vientiane went to considerable lengths to control and curtail the ((drug)) trade." In the Journal, publisher Peter Kann, who was a reporter in Vietnam, and Phillip Jennings, a former Air America pilot, called the movie a "political obscenity" that smears Air America pilots as buffoons. "This drivel is scripted with all the subtlety of an Animal House cast reciting passages from Jane Fonda's Hanoi diaries...
...guard the holy places of Islam has stirred anti-American and anti-Western feelings among Muslims. Moscow frets that the crisis could ultimately widen the gap between North and South, pit the Islamic world against Europe and set the stage for future regional challenges that will prove beyond the control of either superpower...